The world of football has changed so since the early nineteenth century. Back in those days it was not uncommon for a player of any level to be a smoker or a drinker or have any of these bad habits. Now a days it is so much different, as a footballer u are expected to take care of your body and keep up a extremely high level of fitness.
Many different aspects of fitness are needed for football, but for a right back I think that the main aspect of fitness needed are cardio respiratory endurance, speed and muscular strength and. C.R.E is needed so that the player will be able to keep up a high level of performance throughout the duration of the match (90 mins). As a right back they are needed to get up and down the wing to help out the winger and also get back to defend. Speed is important as without speed becoming a pro would be very hard. Speed is needed to keep up with those pacey strikers and wingers, and when running at opponents to easily beat and fly past on towards goal. Having speed will allow you to close down and deny space for attackers quicker and put in quick slide tackles. Muscular strength is needed to hold of attackers out jump and beat an opponent to a header. It is also needed for 50/50 challenges to be able to come out on top.
For skill related aspects of fitness timing is very important to be able to win the ball and not give away a foul or penalty, it is also important to be able to make that perfect run around the winger and put in a inch perfect cross for your attacker to attack. Reaction time is also important so to get of the mark quickly to close down and limit attacks, having a fast reaction time would mean that you would reach a 50/50 ball before an opponent and get to the ball first.
For a defender the most important mental aspects needed in my eyes are aggression/determination but only in a controlled fashion otherwise there is the possibility of being sent of. You need it to go into strong challenges and not let your opponent win the ball, but if you put in a rash challenge with to much aggression you will be seeing red. Concentration is important to remain focussed on your marking task and not let your opponent get away. You need to be fully concentrated throughout the full match otherwise you performance will drop. You need to be in the right frame of mind for any sport so having a decent level of arousal is important, you need to be psyched up for the match which will make you play to the best of your ability. On the other hand being to psyched up can have an opposite affect and you may become overly aggressive

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For a midfielder in football i think that a variety of aspects of fitness are required. The main physical aspects of fitness required are cardio respiratory endurance (CRE), speed, and flexibility. Cardio repiratory endurance will be vital because of the demands of playing in this position. A midfielder is always working throughout the full 90 minutes of the game whether it is on or off the ball. Speed is also vital because football is a fast moving game and a midfielder is always making runs forward to attack and making runs back to defnd. Speed can be an advantage as well when taking on an opponent, beat an opponent to a 50/50 ball or running into space. Flexibility is also required because there are number of tackles a midfielder will enounter in a game. This will allow the player to stretch to make tackles aswel as take shots on goal and deliver a good cross from a wide position. The main skill related aspects of fitness required are agility, reaction time and timing. Agility will be useful because a midfielder will be able to quickly change direction to lose players aswel as create more space when attacking to create better opportunities. Reaction time can be vital to a midfielder for when closing down attacks, block shots and quickly intercept passes to use to an advantage. It is also useful for a midfielder to have a quick reaction time when the team is on a counter attack, the faster the better leading to a more likely advantage. Timing is vital for a midfielder because they are ideally the more important playmaker on the field. They have to have the ability to play the perfect cross, the precise pass, and have good timing when making a run either defensively or while attacking. The most important mental aspects of fitness required for a midfielder i think are concentration and determination . It is important to concentrate on your role because for a midfielder you have to act defensively and attackingly so therefore a high amount of concentration is required because you don’t want to get caught out of position or in possesion. You also have to be very determined to be a midfielder as you have to be determined to win tackles make your runs at the right time and give your all to do your best and improve your overall performance, the more determined you are the more likely you are to have a better performance.

During a match a suash player need to have high levels of many different aspects of fitness from all three areas. the main types of physical fitness required are Cardio respiritory endurance and speed however many more are vital. A long match can be up to and sometimes over an hour of maximum performance with just four 90 second breaks, this means you need to be able to play at your hardest for the whole match. if this is poor you will not be able to work hard in the final game or two and be exploited by your opponent.
You also need good speed over a short distance to be able to get to the ball fast enough to play a reasonable shot. if you are not fast enough around the couer you will not get to the ball and will therefore lose. You also need strength in the upper body to play the ball in an aggressive manner to the back of the court or put your opponent under great pressure. if this is a weak point then you will struggle to win points and will have to rely on your opponent making mistakes.
Skill related fitness such as agility is also necessary for playing squash. On a small court although you do not need to do long sprints you are required to change direction and stop quickly to play a shot. if your agility is bad you can easily be decieved by your opponent and will not reach the ball in time. Co-ordination is also useful as you need to play the ball to excactly where you want it to go as even an average shot can easily be punished. Reaction time is one of the most important aspects of fitness required for squash as you only have a few seconds to get to the ball, play a shot and recover. this is especially important as squash is a game full of deception and so you need to react as soon as if not before the ball is played by your opponent.
An example of mental fitnesss needed in squash is determination. you need to be determined throughout a squash match or your game level will dramatically drop and you will find yourself losing badly. this links to concentration as if this slips for just two minutes you can find yourself 5 or 6 points behind and incapable of pulling back.
You also need to have good anticipation to outhink your opponent and guess where they are hitting it to gain an advantage. Finally you need to be able to deduce your opponents weaknesses and strengths in as short a time as possible and try to conceal yours from the person you are playingto help you win. Overall, all of thse aspects of fitness and more are vital to play competitive matches against the top players in scotland and if just one of them is very weak then you will find yourself at a serious disadvantage.

During a football game a goalkeeper will need from physical fitness: Speed, in order to run from the line to close down an attacker, flexibility for being able to move across the goal mouth and dive and jump into positions to catch the ball efficiently, and cardiorespiretry endurance in order to keep going for the duration of the game.

Form the skill related aaspects of fitness: The goalkeeper will need agility in order to run for his or her goal line in order to burst out from the goal line to closew down an attacker, coordination in order to catch the ball safely and efficiently, and fast reactions in order to react quickly to shots or headers in and around the box in order to prevent goals.

From mental the goalkeeper will need concentration so that he or she is ready to pounce upon ball when recquired e.g if a shot is taken and the goal keeper spills it then they need to be ready to pounce upon the ball, level of arousal, in order to get into the zone before entering the game and not become to agrivated against dodgey desisions or bat tackles made by the oppostion and relaxation so that he or she is not to stressed during the game and can keep calm.

These aspects of fitness are inportant to me during a game of football whilst goalkeeping so that i can play the game at my level of fitness and at my rate, small doses of speed my be recquired form me but im able to make this move in order to break down an attack or catch the ball.

I think all of these aspects of fitness are recquired for a goal keeper when playing football.