This paper reviews research on decision-making behavior of both goalkeeper and penalty taker during penalty kick situations in association football. Specifically, it adopts an ecological dynamics perspective on the behavior of both penalty taker and goalkeeper exemplifying how each might constrain the other’s decisions. This conceptual framework is elucidated to suggest key ideas for designing ...

This paper presents a hybrid approach to learning and evolving of a team of Sony legged robots (AIBO) in the robot football domain. These advanced walking robots aim to participate in the Sony Legged Robot League within the RoboCup competition. To achieve this goal, three important issues have been addressed in the paper:(i) multi-sensor based distributed perception, (ii) behaviour based approa...

In 1994 Joseph S Blatter, President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), asked: “What can medicine and science do to improve the game of football?” Although a simple question, it led to the founding of the FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) during the 1994 FIFA World Cup USA. The objective of F-MARC was to reduce football injuries at all levels of p...

The aim of this study was to determine the structure of morphological and motor characteristics of Croatian first league female football players and their impact on the estimated quality of the players. According to the goal of the research, a sample consisted of 70 Croatian first league female football players. Participants were measured in 18 tests for assessing morphological characteristics,...

This thesis is a historical and critical examination of the development of the Premier League and the new consumption of football, which attempts to link these developments with wider post-Fordist transformations. The thesis argues that the transformation of labour relations in football set the Football League on a course of organic political economic development which privileged the big city c...

Background: Sport performance in football players is determined by Aerobic and Anaerobic power in them. Aerobic power is best indicated by VO2max. VO2max is maximum capacity of individual’s body to transport and utilize the oxygen during exercise, which reflects the physical fitness of individual. Anaerobic power is power produced in absence of oxygen. Anaerobic capacity is useful in sprints in...

An analogy is made between two rather different domains, namely: logic, and football (or soccer). Starting from a comparative table between the two activities, an alternative explanation of logic is given in terms of players, ball, goal, and the like. Our main thesis is that, just as the task of logic is preserving truth from premises to the conclusion, footballers strive to keep the ball as fa...

Football (or soccer, if you’re in North America) is the most widespread team sport played in the world [1]. Apart from international football, the bulk of football matches take place at the level of domestic clubs. Most countries have an established football league where clubs representing different geographical regions compete against one another. There are no restrictions on the players who m...

conclusions despite rarity of the hip external rotator muscles strains, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of athletes with proximal posterior thigh and buttock pain. introduction buttock pain is a relatively common complaint among adolescent athletes and can have a very broad differential diagnosis. case presentation the authors present a previously unreported case of acute ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the mechanisms of injury for concussions in university football, ice hockey, and soccer. DESIGN Prospective analysis. SETTING McGill University. PATIENTS All athletes participating in varsity football, ice hockey, and soccer. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Athletes participating in university varsity football, ice hockey, and soccer were followed prospectively to determine t...