Relationships Between Task Constraints, Visual Constraints, Joint Coordination and Football-Specific Performance in Talented Youth Athletes: An Ecological Dynamics Approach.

Individual performance in team sports is a multifactorial reflection of how well a player can cope and accomplish tasks in varied playing situations. Thus, performance analysis should not only focus on outcomes, but also on underlying mechanisms of those outcomes. We adopted principles of the ecolog...

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Published in:Perceptual & Motor Skills Vol. 131; no. 1; pp. 161 - 177
Main Authors: Heuvelmans, Pieter, Di Paolo, Stefano, Benjaminse, Anne, Bragonzoni, Laura, Gokeler, Alli
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Published: Sage Publications Inc. Feb2024
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          Heuvelmans, Pieter
          Di Paolo, Stefano
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          Bragonzoni, Laura
          Gokeler, Alli
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          Exercise Science and Neuroscience Unit, Department of Exercise & Health, Faculty of Science, 26578 Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany
          Department for Life Quality Studies, 9296 University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
          Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, 3647 University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
          School of Sport Studies, Hanze University Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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        Task performance
        Ankle physiology
        Constraint-induced movement therapy
        Psychology of athletes
        Soccer
        Leg
        Kinematics
        Joints (Anatomy)
        Sports events
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          Other Spectator Sports
          Sports stadiums and other presenters with facilities
          Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities
          Ankle physiology
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          Psychology of athletes
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          Kinematics
          Joints (Anatomy)
          Sports events
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        constraints
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      ab: Individual performance in team sports is a multifactorial reflection of how well a player can cope and accomplish tasks in varied playing situations. Thus, performance analysis should not only focus on outcomes, but also on underlying mechanisms of those outcomes. We adopted principles of the ecological dynamics approach (EDA) to investigate the effect of introducing constraints on players' joint coordination responses for a football-specific performance drill outcome. Seventeen talented youth football (soccer) players performed a football-specific drill under different conditions: basic constraints, additional defender dummies, stroboscopic glasses, and a combination of the latter two constraints. We recorded these players' execution time, passing accuracy, and lower extremity joint kinematics. We calculated joint coordination for hip-knee, knee-ankle, and trunk-hip couplings. The added constraints negatively affected execution time and passing accuracy, and caused changes in joint coordination. Furthermore, we identified a relationship between execution time and joint coordination. This study serves as an example how the EDA can be adopted to investigate mechanisms that underlie individual performance in team sports.
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