Relationship between fitness level and injury status among Pahang State female football players / Helmi Farhakim Mat Noor

Football really is worldwide sports that play by both male and female. There were
many major big competitions such as World cup, EURO and Concacaf Cup. But all
the major event only focus on male competition rather than female. Fans normally do
not support female football match because of many aspect but the major of it is the
feminist side of women. According (e.g., Bourke, 2003), Women's soccer, in contrast
to men's soccer, has a relatively short history. This also led to short interest of
researcher on the female football player. The subject is (N=20) from the Pahang FA
female team. Subject age are in range (19-26). The team are currently preparing for
the Liga Kebangsaan and the LBR female tournament. Three fitness test will be
perform by them which is bleep test (endurance), illnois agility test (agility) and 30M
sprint (speed). The result of this study found the coefficient correlation between the
three fitness component and injury status of the players are moderate. The p value for
two of the fitness variable that correlate with injury found it significant when 0<0,05
except for speed of the players and the injury is not significant when p>0.05. It is
possible that level of the fitness of the female players do contribute in preventing the
injury of the female players.