<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\">The present study was undertaken with an objective to study the effect of psychotherapeutic training on improvement of coordination in performance of soccer skills. Eighty one young male soccer players of the city of Kota Bharu in Kelantan province of Malaysia, in the age range of </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">18.6 to 20.9</span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"> years, volunteered as participants. They were assessed with transient anxiety; simple and </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">complex</span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\">reaction ability; motor coordination; psychobiological measures of tonic and phasic skin conductance activity; assessment of muscle potentiality and </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">soccer agility and soccer juggling skill</span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"> as measure of pre-intervention analyses. &nbsp;Thereafter, they were randomly and equally categorized into three groups; viz. Group A (N = 27), i.e. control group who didn&rsquo;t receive any intervention; Group B (N = 27) referred to as the Experimental Group I, who received </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">Abbreviated Progressive Muscle Relaxation or APMR</span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"> andGroup C (N = 27), hereafter the Experimental Group II, who received </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">active relaxation training</span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\">. Both of the interventions were introduced to the respective group following standardize protocol (20 minutes/day; 2 days/week for12 weeks). Mid-term analyses (on all of the parameters of pre-intervention analyses were repeated) were done six weeks after the introduction of intervention sessions. Thereafter interventions continued following the similar protocol for six more weeks. Post-intervention analyses following similar analyses protocols were done on all of the participants, and the findings revealed that both </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">APMR</span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"> and </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">active relaxation training</span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"> had beneficial impacts on </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">enhancement in autonomic adaptation, whereas compared to active relaxation training, APMR had relatively better beneficial impacts on the level of coordination performances</span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\">of the soccer players. Furthermore, </span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">due to enhanced coordination performances, significant improvement in soccer juggling performance and in soccer agility was observed in the players who received APMR training.</span></p>