Examination of Visual and Audial Reaction Periods of National Team Football Players in terms of Gender Variance

Abstract

Although there are many studies on the physical and physiological characteristics of footballplayers, it can be said that studies describing the reaction characteristics of football players especiallycompare the genders are quite limited. The aim of this study is to determine the visual, auditory reactiontimes of male and female football national team athletes. Male (n=30;age 16.54±2.10years; height length176.60±6.81cm; body weight 69.20±8.97kg) and woman (n=18; age 17.44±1.81) playing in the U 17 Men'sand Women's Football National Team. Height length 163.72±5.45cm; body weight 54.23±6.48kg) playerparticipated. The data obtained are presented as arithmetic mean, standard deviation, minimum andmaximum. All statistical evaluations were made with the help of SPSS 21 package program. Visual reactionvalues of male players in the examination conducted right hand: 193.46±15.37ms; left hand: 191.10±23.55ms; auditory reaction values on the right hand: 171.40± 26.45ms; left hand was detected as165.23±27.37ms. The female players; visual reaction values right hand: 187.66±47.14 ms; left hand:210.44±47.96 ms; audial reaction values right hand: 217.72±69.30ms; left hand was determined as204.05±49.13ms. It has been determined that the visual and auditory reaction times, which are the maindeterminants of the performance, are lower in favor of men than in women in the U 17 Football NationalTeam. Different results were obtained according to gender in different sports branches at elite level in theliterature and the reaction did not change according to gender