Abstract des Autors

The aim of this study was to examine whether a novel on-field training intervention improves the anticipation performance of novice football goalkeepers for deceptive and nondeceptive penalty kicks. Participants were allocated to either a one-player training group (OP) or a three-player training group (TP). The OP group faced “traditional” practices, with one penalty taker running up to execute the kicks. The TP group faced three players running up to the ball, with only one of the three players continuing the run-up to execute the kick. The other two players stopped their run-up approximately 1.2m from the ball. The rationale for choosing this distance, and subsequently the aim of TP, was to orient goalkeeper attention toward the more reliable information that unfolds toward the end of the run-up. We rationalized that TP would act as a form of reduced usefulness training, by minimizing the availability of early penalty taker information. If TP achieves this aim, we hypothesized that the TP group would learn to attend to reliable information in the kicking action of penalty takers (e.g., nonkicking foot placement) and perform significantly better than OP, leading to better posttest anticipation performance in deception and nondeception trails. (geändert)