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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this investigation is to fixate the degree of knowledge and opinions of
technical directors who are working in Turkısh Republic of Northern Cyprus soccer super
leage (2003-2004 season) about general basis, technical and principles of athlete nutrition.
Nutrition is; to take in, digest and absorbtion of the essential nutrients to body that are
using in the activities of organism. No life can be without nutrition. Well-balanced nutrient
can increase the general health and power efficiency. On the other hand, inaccurate nutrition
style can effect general health and power efficiency negatively. Treatment of general health
and improving the performance can be through proper nutrition basis, technic and principles.
For this purpose, the population of this investigation is the technical directors of 10
soccer super leage teams in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ages between 22-33. The
questionnaire composed of 39 questions which reliability and validity are already set applied
to 10 tecnical directors that are actively working as technical director. Likert type 4 grade
scale used for the matters related to the questionnaire and SPSS 10,0 statistical package used
to analyse the datas.
In this investigation, frequency (F) and percentage (%) were used to determine the
sensitivity of TRNC Soccer Super Leage technical directors about well-balanced and efficient
nutrition, the degree of knowledge about general basis, technical and principles of athlete
nutrition and how effective of athletes about their own well-balanced nutrition.
When the results of technical directors who participated to questionnaire examined;
proper answer were given to literature about subject of taking carbohydrated base nutrients
before the game %60, the time of taking nutrients in pregame %90, the amount of fluid that
taken in last meal %90, about doping %60, the relation between muscle hypertrophy and
protein %70, about dehydration %100 and about the nutrition types of weight gaining and
weight loss %90. However they give inproper answers to literature about using ergogenic
materials, taking soccer spesific fat ratio, using the simple carbohydrates and the effects of
weight loss to performance.
Key Words: Soccer, super leage, technical director, nutrition
GİRİŞ
Futbol, geniş bir oyun alanında çok sayıda insanın katılımıyla oyun kuralları gereği
belirlenmiş sınırlı bir alanda sonucunun kalelere atılan gollerle belirlendiği el harici vücudun
her yeri kullanılarak oynandığı bir spordur (İnal, 1998). Futbolda performans açısından en
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