Dominant Physical Factor Determinant to Play Football

Abstract

— There is an important physical condition for football’s athlete. It determine the athlete performance on field. This research goal is to identify the dominant physical factor determinant to play football. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. The subjects of this reserach were 125 football players in two university in Surakarta City. This research use confirmatory factor analysis. Statistical software (SPSS 22) were used to process the data using Kaiser Meyer Olkin and Bartlett’s Test. The result of this study indicated that agility (0.784), foot-eye coordination (0.720), speed (0.697), dynamic balance (0.646), endurance (0.588), leg power (0.528) have a dominant factor on player skill (component factor ≥ │0,5│). However, leg strength (0.380), trunk flexibility (0.410) and reaction time (0.417) has no significant contribution on player skill (component factor <│0,5│). Playing football required physical condition to maintain a competitive play in football. Coaches and athletes should consider this findings as a foundation to create a training program.