Paper Title
Talent Identification on Aerobic Capacity among Team Sport Athletes

Abstract
The purpose of the study was to compare the aerobic capacity between the state level players of football and hockey. In this study, the subjects for data collection were drawn from the Th. Birachandra Singh Football Academy (TBSFA), Taobungkhok Makha Leikai, Imphal West, Manipur and Thoubal Hockey (TH), ThoubalMelaground, Thoubal, Manipur. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the subjects. The age of the subjects ranged between 12-16 years. The sample consisted of 40 male players.The study involved players who attended a regular practices programme in Th. Birachandra Singh Football Academy (TBSFA), Taobungkhok Makha Leikai, Imphal West, Manipur andThoubal Hockey (TH), Thoubal Melaground, Thoubal, Manipur.Twenty (N1=20) male players from football and twenty (N2=20) male players from hockey.To find out the aerobic capacity between the football and hockey players,Talent identification on aerobic capacity among team sport athleteswas used for this purpose of the study. To find out the significant difference between the football and hockey players of Manipur the independent‘t’-test statistical technique was employed. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The result showed that there is significance difference between the football and hockey players in Copper’s 12 Minutes Run-Walk Test with regard to Talent identification on aerobic capacity among team sport athletes.Copper’s 12 Minutes Run-Walk Test t.05 (38) =2.068<3.73 Keywords: Football, Hockey, Players, Talent Identification, Aerobic Capacity.