Validity and Reliability of New Agility Test among Elite and Subelite under 14-Soccer Players

Agility is a determinant component in soccer performance. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and sensitivity of a “Modified Illinois change of direction test” (MICODT) in ninety-five U-14 soccer players.A total of 95 U-14 soccer players (mean ± SD: age: 13.61±1.04 years; body mass: 30.52±4.54 kg; height: 1.57±0.1 m) from a professional and semi-professional soccer academy, participated to this study. Sixty of them took part in reliability analysis and thirty-two in sensitivity analysis. = 0.51 [small]), showing poor discriminant ability.MICODT can be considered as more suitable protocol for assessing agility performance level than ICODT in U-14 soccer players