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- Title
Affordances shape pass kick behavior in association football: effects of distance and social context.
- Authors
Pepping, Gert-Jan; Heijmerikx, Johan; De Poel, Harjo J.
- Abstract
A prerequisite for accurate passing in association football is that a player perceives the affordances, that is, the opportunities for action, of a given situation. The present study examined how affordances shape passing in association football by comparing the performance of pass-kicks in two task conditions. Participants performed pass-kicks into either a stationary goal or to a teammate over a range of distances. The following passing action valuables were measured: passing accuracy, pass preparation time, pass-kick technique, passing height, and passing velocity. Participants mainly used inside-foot pass-kicks with little to no height over the entire range of distances when the task was to perform pass-kicks into a stationary goal. However, when the task was to kick to a teammate, participants used inside-foot pass- kicks with little to no height foe short distance passes and switched to relatively more instep-foot pass-kicks with mote height for longer distances. Overall, pass preparation time increased with increasing distance, while participants took less time to prepare for pass-kicks to a moving teammate. The paper outlines these results in terms of the perception of (social affordances for passing in football.
- Subjects
SPORTS research; DECISION making; BALL games; PASSING (Soccer)
- Publication
Journal of Sport Psychology / Revista de Psicología del Deporte, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 2, p709
- ISSN
1132-239X
- Publication type
Article