An integrative test of agility, speed and skill in soccer: Effects of exercise

Bullock, W. Michael; Panchuk, Derek; Broatch, James R.; Christian, Ryan; Stepto, Nigel K.

doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2012.03.002

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“…Based on her/his experience, the player must decide the right response, generating a displacement coherent to this response. Then, the reaction time, total response time, and correctness of response variables are quantified (Bullock et al [26]).…”

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Automatic Registration of Footsteps in Contact Regions for Reactive Agility Training in Sports

Latorre

Zúñiga

Arriaza

et al. 2020

Sensors

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In collective sports, reactive agility training methodologies allow to evaluate and improve the player performance, being able to consider a mixture of technical, tactical, physical, and psychological abilities, similarly to real game-play situations. In this article, we present a new methodology for reactive agility training (neural training), the technological setup for the methodology, and a new footstep tracking algorithm, as the key element for automating the speed data gathering process, necessary for obtaining the relevant variables of the neural training approach. This new methodology is oriented to accurately measure two of the most relevant variables for reactive agility training: total response time (sprint time) and response correctness, related to a stimuli sequence presented to a player. The stimuli were designed to properly represent realistic competitive conditions for player training, contextualized to soccer. In order to automate the gathering process, a new computer vision based automatic footstep detection algorithm has been integrated to the system. The algorithm combines Kalman Filters, segmentation techniques, and perspective geometry, for obtaining highly precise detections of the moment a relevant footstep occurs in real-time, reaching a precision higher than 97%. Plus, the algorithm does not require any special marker, invasive sensor, or clothing constraint on the player.

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Automatic Registration of Footsteps in Contact Regions for Reactive Agility Training in Sports

Latorre

Zúñiga

Arriaza

et al. 2020

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“…Sports-specific field tests not only reflect real game distances covered, but also the number of different movement categories. Agility sprints and straight sprints are among the major types of these tests (Bullock et al, 2012). Yet, such tests might not be ideal for measuring physical fitness of soccer players since these measures do not evaluate skills requiring decision-making processes, such as ball-shooting to a target.…”

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“…In team sports such as soccer, agility is an important quality for evading opponents when attacking or for placing pressure on opponents when defending (Young and Willey, 2010). Soccer also involves perceptual-motor skills that operate simultaneously in a rapidly changing environment (Bullock et al, 2012; Sheppard and Young, 2006). …”

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Reliability and Validity of a New Test of Agility and Skill for Female Amateur Soccer Players

Kutlu

Yapici

Yilmaz

2017

Journal of Human Kinetics

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“…lIMItatIons and recoMMendatIons for future research the main limitation of most studies mentioned in this review interferes with the principle of scientific reproducibility and the consistency of research findings [11,12,25], as already demonstrated in previous review studies [20,21]. Particularly, it comes from: (i) the lack of definition and classification of the skillrelated variables under investigation concerning match context (we proposed these definitions [table 2] on the basis of the literature research); (ii) the contextualization of the sample omitted and the influence of match situational variables (e.g.…”

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“…the total of 27 recruited papers carried out an analysis of technical actions with the use of validated instruments; 3 of them (11.1%) employed the following instruments in match context: team Sport Assessment Procedure (tSAP) [22], system of assessment of functional asymmetry of the lower limbs in football (SAFALL-FOOt) [23], Offensive Sequences characterization System (OScS) [24]; 24 (88.9%) assessed technical actions outside the match context, applying the reactive motor skills test (rMSt) [25], as well as dribbling, shooting, heading, and Loughborough passing tests [10][11][12]26].…”

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Skill-related performance in soccer: a systematic review

Aquino¹,

Puggina²,

Alves³

et al. 2017

Human Movement

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the aim of the study was to evaluate and organize systematically the available literature on skill-related performance in young and adult male soccer players in an attempt to identify the most common topics, ascertain the weaknesses, and elucidate the main contributions of the scientific papers on this issue. A systematic review of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge database was performed in accordance with the Preferred reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses (PrISMA) guidelines. the keywords 'football' and 'soccer' were used, each associated with the following terms: 'technical analysis,' 'technical performance,' 'technical activity,' 'technical skill,' 'technical demands,' 'technical profiles,' 'technical characteristics,' 'technical actions,' 'technical scores,' 'technical ability,' 'motor skills,' and 'skill acquisition'. From the 2830 papers, only 60 were reviewed, of which 75% had been published in years 2011-2015 and 53.3% concerned professional or seniors players (above the U-20 category). Out of the 41 papers that analysed the skill-related performance in the match, 48.8% evaluated the performance in small-sided and conditioned games. Among the 27 papers that used validated instruments, 88.9% assessed technical actions outside the match context (e.g. dribbling, shooting tests). Future research should pay attention to the definition and classification of the skill-related variables under investigation in match context and propose tests for measured skill-related performance in soccer, considering that the representativeness task design allies the players' possibilities of action to the situation of the match.

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An integrative test of agility, speed and skill in soccer: Effects of exercise

Cited by 29 publications

References 24 publications

Automatic Registration of Footsteps in Contact Regions for Reactive Agility Training in Sports

Automatic Registration of Footsteps in Contact Regions for Reactive Agility Training in Sports

Reliability and Validity of a New Test of Agility and Skill for Female Amateur Soccer Players

Skill-related performance in soccer: a systematic review

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