INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF FEEDBACK ON SHOOTING PERFORMANCE OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS DURING 10-WEEKS TRAINING

This study aims to investigate the effect of ten-week feedback training on shooting performance in football players. The study adopts an experimental design and a pre-test/post-test control group model was used. There is an experimental group (ten weeks of training + feedback) and a control group (ten weeks of training) in the research. Groups were formed through random sampling. A total of 40 football players participated in the study including 20 football players in the experimental group (age = 23.67 +/- 1.68) and 20 football players in the control group (age = 23.12 +/- 1.10), who played in an amateur football team. After the approval of the Ethics Committee for the study, the necessary permission was obtained from the Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports. According to the pre-test results, the football players were equally divided into two groups as experimental and control groups. While the control group continued their routine training, the experimental group was administered a 25-minute program on feedback strategies before training 3 days a week for 10 weeks. Following the feedback training program, the athletes in experimental and control groups were given a post-test. Before the research, the shooting test developed by Kayalar et al. (1991) was given to the experimental and control group athletes to measure their shooting skill performance. The sum of the scores of the best 3 shots was recorded as the result. In the data analysis, the normality test was performed and the data was not found to be normally distributed according to the Shapiro Wilk test. Since the data was not normally distributed, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test was used for the difference between dependent samples and Mann Whitney-U Test was used for independent paired comparisons in data analysis in addition to the arithmetic mean (X) and frequency (f). A significant difference was found between the shooting skill pre-test and post-test scores of the athletes participating in the study (z = -4.452, p < .01). A significant difference was found between the shooting skill post-test scores of the athletes in the experimental and control groups (U = 3.50; p < .01). It can therefore be concluded that the feedback received by the athletes had an important effect on improving the shooting skills of the athletes.