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Introduction Dribbling skill is a key factor of performance for soccer players (Ali, 2011). However, no study has investigated the influence of gender on these skills while there exists a disparity between men and women (Kirkendall 2007). Our goal is to evaluate this influence of gender on the kinematics of dribbling. To this end, we propose to use both the juggling test that is the reference in federal system to evaluate players’ level of expertise, and an” 8” shape task used by Zago et al. to assess dribbling skills of young players (Zago et al., 2015). Methods

13 players (6 women and 7 men), from amateur to national level, took part in the study. They had to do a maximal number of juggles for the juggling task and to be as fast as possible for the dribbling task. They also performed reference trials in the” 8” shape slalom without ball, just running as fast as possible. Motion were captured with a Vicon system and were also filmed. We analyzed the kinematical parameters such as dribbling time, stride cadence, shoulder and hips angles, height of center of gravity relative to subject’s size. Results & Discussion

The comparison between juggling and dribbling time shows a negative correlation (p= 0.0498). The dribbling test is thus coherent with the reference juggling test. It also exists a strong statistical trend between during juggling test and the level of expertise (p= 0.056). No statistical difference between men and women was found for the reference condition without ball, the two groups were homogeneous in term of global running performance. However, female players adopted a lower cadence than men (p= 0.033) and they had lower performance in …