Goalkeeping in the soccer penalty kick: The dive is coordinated to the kicker's non-kicking leg placement, irrespective of time constraints

R Zheng, C de Reus, J van der Kamp - Human Movement Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditionally, goalkeeping in the soccer penalty kick has been studied using video-based
technology, in which goalkeepers watched video footage of penalty kicks and indicated …

Goalkeeping in the soccer penalty kick: it is time we take affordance-based control seriously!

J van der Kamp, M Dicks, J Navia… - …, 2018 - researchportal.port.ac.uk
The goalkeeper's difficulty in the soccer penalty kick originates from the extreme
spatiotemporal constraints of the situation. The present review claims that the current …

Height after side: goalkeepers detect the vertical direction of association-football penalty kicks from the ball trajectory

A Higueras-Herbada, JE Lopes, D Travieso… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The present research analyzes the relation between the height of penalty kicks in
association football and (a) the probability that goalkeepers stop the ball,(b) the kinematics …

The interplay of goalkeepers and penalty takers affects their chances of success

B Noël, J Van der Kamp, S Klatt - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Research in penalty kicking has primarily focused on spatial decision making, while
temporal decision making has largely been neglected, even though it is as critical for …

[HTML][HTML] Affordance-based control in deceptive and non-deceptive penalties in soccer goalkeeping: Gender matters!

R Zheng, J van der Kamp, X Song… - Psychology of Sport and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Only few studies have addressed how soccer goalkeepers adapt to both the spatial and
temporal constraints while trying to stop a penalty kick. Moreover, research on penalty kicks …

A field simulation study of the effectiveness of penalty kick strategies in soccer: late alterations of kick direction increase errors and reduce accuracy

J Van Der Kamp - Journal of sports sciences, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This field experiment investigated the relative merits of approaching the penalty kick with
either a keeper-independent or keeper-dependent strategy. In the keeper-independent …

Exploring the merits of perceptual anticipation in the soccer penalty kick

J van der Kamp - Motor control, 2011 - journals.humankinetics.com
This study investigated whether soccer penalty-takers can exploit predictive information from
the goalkeeper's actions. Eight low-and seven high-skilled participants kicked balls in a …

The mere presence of a goalkeeper affects the accuracy of penalty kicks

M Navarro, J van der Kamp, R Ranvaud… - Journal of sports …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The keeper-independent strategy, in which a football penalty kicker selects a target location
in advance and ignores the goalkeeper's actions during the run-up, has been suggested to …

Visual search strategies of soccer players executing a power vs. placement penalty kick

MA Timmis, K Turner, KN Van Paridon - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Introduction When taking a soccer penalty kick, there are two distinct kicking techniques that
can be adopted; a 'power'penalty or a 'placement'penalty. The current study investigated …

Kick it like Ballack: The effects of goalkeeping gestures on goal-side selection in experienced soccer players and soccer novices

M Weigelt, D Memmert, T Schack - Journal of cognitive psychology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The present experiment on soccer penalty kicking investigates the influence of goalkeeping
gestures on goal-side selection in experienced soccer players and novices. Facing a …