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In football there are many components of fitness that are vital for a performer in the sport. Whether you are a performer who plays locally with friends, in football based education, semi professional or full time professional, components of fitness are pivotal for the game we call the beautiful game. To start with, football teams kick the game off with eleven players each with substitutes, teams are only allowed in the law to make three changes in the game professionally. Elementally a football team would start with one goalkeeper, four defenders, four midfielders and two forwards but effectively this could all change as plenty of formations and tactics are used in the modern game. Each player will use different components of fitness and practice different skills and drills in order to intensify their specific position. For instance a forward would work hard on their legs in training as they do a lot of running and kicking the ball to try and create and score goals for their team. A goalkeeper will work on their arms and strength as they are effectively the only player in the team who can handle the ball in their specific area and are important to not concede for their team. In this, I would like to analyse the components of fitness and specific training compulsory for the position of a central midfielder by using my understanding of the position where I played in the game of football and use main information and research I have learnt.
The most important component of fitness for a footballer or any other sports person would definitely be aerobic and endurance fitness, aerobic being the oxygen intake (VO2) any one person can support and sustain at any one time during activity or exercise (Dick, Frank W 2007). The average professional football central midfielder will run up to more than 10,000 metres (six miles in ninety minutes , four miles per hour ), in only one game (www.kgbanawersanswers.com) which over the space of ninety minutes may, to many people watching...