Investigative trends in understanding penalty-kick performance in Association Football: an ecological dynamics perspective

LOPES, Jose E, ARAÚJO, Duarte and DAVIDS, Keith (2014). Investigative trends in understanding penalty-kick performance in Association Football: an ecological dynamics perspective. Sports Medicine, 44 (1), 1-7.

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Abstract

There have been different approaches to studying penalty-kick performance in association football and in this paper we synthesize key findings within an ecological dynamics theoretical framework. According to this theoretical perspective, information is the cornerstone for understanding the dynamics of action regulation in penalty-kick performance. Research suggests that investigators need to identify the information sources that are most relevant to penalty-kick performance. An important task is to understand how constraints can channel (i.e. change, emphasize or mask) information sources used to regulate upcoming actions and how the influence of these constraints is expressed in players' behavioural dynamics. Due to the broad range of constraints influencing penalty-kick performance, it is recommended that future research adopts an interdisciplinary focus on performance assessment to overcome the current lack of representativeness in penalty-kick experimental designs. Such an approach would serve to capture the information-based control of action of both players as components of this dyadic system in competitive sport.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Centre for Sports Engineering Research
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-013-0101-6
Page Range:	1-7
Depositing User:	Carole Harris
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2013 15:26
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 19:30
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7476

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