This study is aimed to identify the comparison of agility without the balls and using the balls among football players who play in defenders, midfielders and striker in IPT League for Sultan Idris Education University, Tanjong Malim, Perak. The researchers have imposed Illinois Test and Slalom 90° and 180° in order to determined the level of subjects agility though pre and post test after undergone the training program. The sample of this study consists of n=18 football players. The data was obtained from the subjects scores in this test were analyzed by using One-Way Anova from Statistical Package for Social Science version 21.0. The results of agility without balls among defenders, midfielders and strikers showed the significant difference between defenders position (Min ± SP = 2.22 ± 0.99), midfielders (Min ± SP = 34.95 ±1.17) and strikers (Min ± SP = 31.40 ± 1.36) without using the balls before treatment was given by using agility indicator with value F (2, 12) = 6.01, p < 0.05. Meanwhile the results showed that there was a significant difference among defenders Min ± SP = 29.37 ± 1.51), midfielders (Min ± SP = 30.29 ± 0.93) and strikers (Min ± SP = 26.11 ± 0.78) without using balls after received treatment on agility indicator with value F (2, 12) = 9.02, p < 0.05. For agility results among football players that consists of defenders, midfielders and strikers before received treatment showed there was no significant difference. However, the test results showed that there was a significant difference with the value 0.000 among defenders, midfielders and strikers with balls after received treatment. As results, it is clearly showed that training program conducted by the subjects in this study has a positive impact in improving the level of agility.
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