Indian Women’s Football: Players Kinanthropometric Analysis: An analysis of the physical attributes of Indian women's football players

Abstract

Anthropometry is the science of measuring the size and proportion of human body. kinanthropometric measurements are also used to determine body size differences, somatotyping and body composition. The kinanthropometry of physical characteristics are known to be of fundamental importance for individual development to achieve high level of performance in a specific sport (Prof. Zamirullah khan, 2016). Indian national women’s football team was one of the best team of Asia in mid 70s and early 80s when they became runners up in 1980 and 1983 AFC women’s Asian cup. But the team is yet to participate in Olympic Games and world cups. The reason which concerned me was the physical attributes of the players. A total of 24 Indian national women’s football team players, who have represented India at various international tournaments, were chosen for the purpose of the study and for the analysis of data descriptive statistics was employed and important findings withdrawn are as follows. In this research it was found that the average age of the player’s was 289 months (24.11 year)where the minimum and maximum age of the player was 220 months (18.33 year), 398 months (33.16 year).Where researcher obtained the average height of Indian national women football player was 157.96cms. Where the maximum heighted player was of 165.20cms and the minimum height of the player was 146cms. Mean leg length was 94.29cms. The average weight of women Indian soccer player’s was 54.80kgs (minimum weight was 45.55 and the maximum weight was 72.60kgs). After investigation and analysis of selected kianthropometric variables the researcher obtained the results that Indian national women football players poses average (height 157.96cms, age 24.11 year, leg length 94.29 cms, weight 54.80kgs, BMI 21.95) and these parameters are less than those teams who are giving top class performance at the world level.