Abstract

Football athletes within the University of Ibadan do not exert themselves on the field of play, failing to demonstrate and show dominance and assertiveness, and so have become generally docile, lacking in all of the instrumentally aggressive properties and action desirable of a football team and her corresponding football players. This study, therefore, seeks to understand the effect of Taekwondo martial arts training on physical skill among University of Ibadan football players. Based on this, the study assessed the effect of 6-week Taekwondo (Martial Arts) skill training on University of Ibadan football players (physical skills. The non-probability purposive sampling technique was adopted for this study because the main objective of the study was to collect information from participants who were easily accessible to the researcher at the time and because the participants all had characteristics that were needed in the sample. The following research instruments were used: the Sport Aggression Questionnaire and the 18-item Sport Mental Toughness Questionnaire (SMTQ-18). After administering the questionnaire, the data was extracted, coded, and analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The descriptive statistics of frequency count, percentage (%), and bar chart were used to analyse the demographic information, while correlation and regression analyses were used to test the null hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study revealed a significant influence of the independent variable (taekwondo training) on the physical skill and instrumental aggression of University of Ibadan football players, as indicated by the F-statistics value of 65.49, and this is significant due to the fact, that the p-value is less than 0.05 (p = 0.000 <0.05).