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CASE REPORT article

Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1356340
This article is part of the Research Topic Theory and Practice of Soccer Psychology View all 6 articles

PROBABILISTIC INFORMATION IN THE PENALTY

Provisionally accepted
Vicente Luis-del Campo Vicente Luis-del Campo 1*Pedro T. Esteves Pedro T. Esteves 2Leonardo P. Monteiro Leonardo P. Monteiro 3Filipe Luis M. Casanova Filipe Luis M. Casanova 3
  • 1 Faculty of Sports Sciences, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
  • 2 Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
  • 3 Lusófona University- Centro de Investigação em Desporto, Educação Física, Exercício e Saúde (CIDEFES), Lisbon, Portugal

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    The penalty kick is a crucial action in a football match that may determine the final outcome. It features a direct interaction between the shooter and goalkeeper where both search for relevant information as a means to achieve their respective performance goals. A case study, composed of an on-field intervention, was designed to analyze the influence of providing in advance penalty kicking tendencies of the shooters on a youth goalkeeping movement onset and saving performance. Data collection took place over 8 training sessions where a U10 young low-skilled, male goalkeeper and shooters were subjected to a penalty-kick shootout task. In each session, the goalkeeper faced a set of 10 penalty kicks recorded by a high-speed HD camera which allowed to calculate the moment that the shooter hit the ball and the goalkeeper movement onset in the direction of ball trajectory. Results showed that the goalkeeper delayed response initiation in the retention phase, when compared to the baseline and training phases, by moving closer to the foot-to-ball contact time by the penalty shooter. From this study, it can be highlighted that goalkeeping saving actions were adapted to the provision of a priori information about shooter kicking tendencies, to sustain a higher performance of the young goalkeeper during the penalty duelling.

    Keywords: probabilistic information, Onset movement, Penalty saves, Goalkeeper, Football

    Received: 15 Dec 2023; Accepted: 12 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Luis-del Campo, Esteves, Monteiro and Casanova. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Vicente Luis-del Campo, Faculty of Sports Sciences, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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