Kruijf, J. de (Jelle) (2016) Gaze behavior in young soccer talents while performing a position game exercise: An exploratory study. thesis, Sport Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Testing gaze behavior and getting more insight about gaze behavior of soccer players is of big importance to improve performance. Van Norel (2009) conducted a study in an in situ soccer situation in which it was found that while performing a pass and kick task, players fixated most time on the ball. The current study continued on this work to highlight important gaze location fixations in soccer, but made the task more real-game soccer-specific. Fixations of ten talented youth soccer players at Vitesse Arnhem (aged: 14 and 16 years) were recorded while performing a position game exercise on a 16x13 meters soccer pitch which consisted of 9 players. In every position game, 1 player had to wear an eye tracker so that eye fixations could be tracked. Results highlighted that during a position game exercise, talented soccer players tried to look ahead on their own and other player’s actions. During passes of two teammates to each other, soccer players quickly transferred their gaze to the player receiving the ball and showed quite longer fixation durations on these players receiving the ball than fixations on the ball. However, the results of this current study must be interpreted carefully due to a range of limitations and to the small amount of successful data. Nevertheless, when performing a gaze behavior study in soccer, this study highlighted that tasks should be soccer-specific and must be performed in natural environments.
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Zaal, dr. ir. F.T.J.M. and Norel, J. van |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2022 12:33 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2022 12:33 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3165 |
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