Effects of a 10-Week Combined Coordination and Agility Training Program on Young Male Soccer Players González Fernández, Francisco Tomás Sarmento, Hugo Castillo Rodríguez, Alfonso Silva, Rui Clemente, Filipe Manuel Football Coordination Agility Training program Performances Athletes The current literature has shown how working on coordination and agility produces effects on specific aspects in team sports. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a ten-week coordination training program applied to soccer on different tests that evaluate speed (30 m speed test), agility (Illinois Agility Test (IAT)) and lower body strength (countermovement jump (CMJ)). Forty U16 male soccer players from two nonprofessional teams (twenty in the control group (CG) (aged = 14.70 ± 0.47, body weight = 60.15 ± 8.07 kg, height = 1.71 ± 0.06 m) and twenty in the experimental group (EG) (aged = 14.50 ± 0.51, body weight = 58.08 ± 9.78 kg, height = 1.69 ± 0.06 m)) performed a combined coordination and agility program during 10 min every training day (3 days a week) for 10 weeks. The results of this study showed that coordination training produced adaptations in the power (CMJ of EG (p = 0.001)) and agility capacities (IAT of EG (p = 0.002)) of young soccer players, but not on speed performance at longer distances (CG, p = 0.20 and EG, p = 0.09). Despite the benefits of the training program, a combination of training methods that includes power, agility, speed, and strength can enhance such improvements. 2021-10-15T07:23:11Z 2021-10-15T07:23:11Z 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article González-Fernández, F.T.; Sarmento, H.; Castillo-Rodríguez, A.; Silva, R.; Clemente, F.M. Effects of a 10-Week Combined Coordination and Agility Training Program on Young Male Soccer Players. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 10125. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph181910125 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/70867 10.3390/ijerph181910125 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI