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    Age and Physiological Influence on Shot Effectiveness of Female Footballers in Federal Capital Territory Abuja Municipal Area Council
    (Department of Human Kinetic Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2018) WHOBA, Esther Chioma; SEIDINA, Iliasu Yakubu,; BAKINDE, Surajudeen Tosho; ABOLARIN, Joseph Akinyemi
    The objective of this study was to determine the influence of age and physiological variables on shot effectiveness of female footballers in Abuja Municipal Council Area. Ex-pose facto research design was used. The population consisted of 36 female footballer players with a sample of 18 players who were purposively selected because they were the team’s regular match starter. They had an age range of 19 – 27 years. Standardized instruments used include stop watch, whistle, obstacles/marking cones, exercise mat, football goal, 400m athletic track and balls. The instruments were used to conduct Illinois agility, muscular endurance, V02max and shooting tests. Descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used for answering the research question while one-way analysis of variance was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 alpha level. The findings showed 77.8% of the players had high agility score (17.3 ± 2.4), all of them had high muscular endurance (45 ± 3.8 reps-1), shot effectiveness (31.3 ± 7.0 points) and poor V02max (25.4 ± 3.1ml/kg-1). Only agility F(2, 17) = 1.624, p< 0.05 had significant influence on shot effectiveness of the participants while age range, muscular endurance and V02max {F(2, 17 =0.816, 1.908, 1.629} Had no significant influence on shot effectiveness. Based on this finding, it was concluded that agility is a major physiological factor that influence shot effectiveness of the participants. It was recommended that aside general training programme, individualized train drills should be organized to improve the agility level of players beyond average and emphasis must be places on cardiorespiratory fitness training for enhanced shot effectiveness