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Validity, Reliability and Development of Soccer-Specific Battery Test

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Advancing Sports and Exercise via Innovation

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Soccer is also known as a complex sport as it involves physical, physiological and technical demand to be fit. Many professional soccer clubs actively investigate the factor to achieve high performance in soccer. Thus, the aim of this study was to establish the validity, reliability and development of soccer-specific battery tests. A total of 223 young male soccer players from several soccer positions between 13 and 17 years old participated in this study. However, 59 young male soccer players chosen randomly were performed in reliability test and accomplished 2 trials tests (run with ball, long passing, short passing, shooting to the right top corner (dead ball), shooting to the left top corner (dead ball), shooting from a pass (foot), heading mid-post and side-post). The data were tested using ANOVA to distinguish the conceivable systematic bias between 2 attempts of trial in each test, and also discriminant analysis (DA) was used to discriminate between elite and non-elite players from selected battery tests. The evaluated test revealed high intraclass correlation coefficients on run with ball (intraclass correlation coefficient > 0.90), meanwhile for other tests only at moderate levels (intraclass correlation coefficients, > 40) and small within-individual variation (coefficients variation, > 0.16%). DA successfully discriminates between elite and non-elite soccer players with seven significant parameters with elite tend to have greater aerobic functional capacity, more skilful and matured compared to non-elite (p < 0.05). Establishment of specific skill-related performance with moderate to high validity and reliability will ensure the distinction between elite and non-elite soccer players.

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  1. Defence Fitness Academy, National Defence University of Malaysia, Kem Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Ahmad Nadzmi, Ahmad Bisyri Husin Musawi Maliki & Jorrye Jakiwa

  2. Center for Fundamental and Continuing Education, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

    Rabiu Muazu Musa

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  1. Exercise and Sports Science Programme, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

    Garry Kuan

  2. Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan

    Yu-Kai Chang

  3. Victoria University, Melbourne, VLC, Australia

    Tony Morris

  4. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Teo Eng Wah

  5. Centre for Fundamental and Continuing Education, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

    Rabiu Muazu Musa

  6. School of Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong—Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

    Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed

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Nadzmi, A., Maliki, A.B.H.M., Jakiwa, J., Musa, R.M. (2023). Validity, Reliability and Development of Soccer-Specific Battery Test. In: Kuan, G., Chang, YK., Morris, T., Eng Wah, T., Musa, R.M., P. P. Abdul Majeed, A. (eds) Advancing Sports and Exercise via Innovation. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8159-3_14

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