Relationship between kicking and sprinting performance

Kicking is one of the most vital skills in soccer and strength and power share importance in the explosive movement of top level play. The full instep - kick is one of the kicks typically used to generate fastball speed. Twenty-seven Croatian national football team members (U-15) (mean (SD) age 15.8 (2.9) years, height 173.5 (5.5) cm, weight 62.1 (5.4) kg took part in the study, and performed sprint tests and kicking performance test (measured by radar gun, Stalker-Pro, Texas). The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between kicking performance and sprinting performance, using field performance tests. Kicking performance correlated with sprinting performance in all four sprinting variables (r = 0.49 to 0.54; p