Comparison of physiological factors in Iranian football players with world standards

The purpose of this study was to determine the physical fitness profile of the players in the Iranian soccer super League. To this approach, 26 subjects from Iran Soccer League (mean age 23/25±2/71 years, height 182/46±3/90 cm and weigh 76/61±4/97kg) volunteers and selected as the study participants. Anthropometric indicators such as body fat determined using Isaac methods. Physical fitness indexes including speed, measured using 20 m speed test, agility measured using Illinois test, anaerobic power measured by Jump auricular Bvskv test and aerobic capacity measured by 20 m Shuttle run. Descriptive statistics used to describe the demographic characteristics, and one-way variance used to analysis of data, the significance level was considered P ?0/05. The study results showed that the subjectsʹ mean percentage of body fat was 7/93%±1, speed was 2/93±0/70 m/s, agility was 15/37± 0/63 second, anaerobic power was 45/30±6/73 watt and aerobic capacity was 46/45±6/90 mg/ml/kg. In general, the results indicated that the percent of body fat of Iranian Soccer players was lower than the world standards. Also, the averages of aerobic and anaerobic power of Iranian soccer players in first class league were lower than the elite players from other countries even in different playing positions. However, the mean speed and agility of the Iranian soccer league players compared with results of other investigations were appropriate.