Kinesiology, Vol. 34. No. 1., 2002.
Preliminary communication
Evaluation of a model of monitoring individual and team performance during attack in a competitive soccer game
Zvonko Miljković
; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slavonski Brod, University of Osijek, Croatia
Stjepan Jerković
; Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Zlatko Šimenc
; Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The soccer game between Brazil and Scotland, played at the FIFA World Cup in France in 1998, was chosen to determine the applicability of a model intended for monitoring both the individual and the team performance in attack at a particular competition. The measurements were conducted on a set of variables that describe the events during attack in a soccer match. Contingency tables were used for data analysis where statistical significance of frequency distributions was determined by means of a chi-square test and the correlation by means of the contingency coefficient. The entities were attacks of the observed team and they were obtained by the summation of actions executed throughout the duration of attacks. The analysis of all variables made it possible to determine the differences between these two teams according to their type of play and according to different playing characteristics. Brazil was characterized by a larger number of actions executed (58.7%), as compared to the Scottish team (41.3%). The results also showed that the Brazilian team played more aggressively than the Scottish team and executed more actions in the sub-areas in the middle of the field and in the sub-areas closer to the opposing team’s goal. Dribbling the ball over medium-long and long distances was dominant in the play of the Brazilian team. The Brazilian team executed a larger number of actions pertaining to the middle and to the final phase of the attack (60.2% and 63.8%, respectively) than did the Scottish team (39.8% and 36.2%, respectively). In both teams outside defenders and goalkeepers were dominant in the phase of attack commencement. Midfield players dominated in the middle phase and outside forwards in the final phase of attack. The applicability of the assessment tool was confirmed as regards the capacity to differentiate between the style of play of two soccer teams
Keywords
soccer; attack; play analysis; game structure; difference
Hrčak ID:
225362
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Publication date:
28.6.2002.
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