INTERPRETING THE SHOOTER´S POSTURE INCREASES THE CHANCES OF STOPPING A PENAL KICK

The Journal of Sport Training (Revista de Entrenamiento Deportivo) published the article The Posture and the Goalkeeper´s Chances Of saving Penalty Kicks in Men’s Football by Manuel Aquino (Universidade Luterana de Santarém, Brasil) and Richard A. Fariña (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

He we provide the abstract and the reference of the article.

This research aimed to evaluate the influence of the use of a specific training programme for goalkeepers on the probability of defending penalties in men’s soccer. The programme is based on training by virtual and physical means in order to develop the goalkeeper´s ability to correctly choose the side (left or right) to which the ball will be directed. Eight hundred penalties were executed before the training programme and another 800 penalties after its application. The experiment was conducted with four different goalkeepers from the sub 21 category of a team of the first division of the Brazilian state of Pará in the city of Santarém in the Amazonia region. The data were statistically tested through the Student test. The results corroborated the hypothesis that, after training, the chances of saving penalty kicks or, at least, choosing the correct side, increase dramatically.

REFERENCE

Aquino M. y R.A. Fariña. 2019. La postura del ejecutante y las probabilidades de atajar un tiro penal en fútbol masculino. Revista de Entrenamiento Deportivo 1 (2): 1-8