The aim of this study was to determine relations between basic and football specific motor abilities among first league female football players. According to the goal of the research, a sample consisted of 70 Croatian first league female football players (21.7±1.3 yr) was used. Participants were measured in 11 basic motor abilities tests and a set of 7 tests for assessing football-specific motor abilities. Footballspecific motor abilities were defined by a set of seven tests that have been shown to describe a football game in the context of five existing latent dimensions: precision of target shooting with the ball, ball handling, speed of ball handling, force of a leg kick, and speed of curvilinear running. By use of canonical correlation analysis, insight into the intensity (CanR=0.96, p=0.00) and structure of relations between basic motor and football specific motor variables was given. Results clearly indicate strong connections between basic and football-specific motor abilities in female football players of high competitive level and point to the necessity of parallel basic and specific motor abilities development among elite female football players.
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