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Does motor coordination influence perceptual-cognitive and physical factors of agility in young soccer players in a sport-specific agility task?
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posted on 2021-11-30, 15:22 authored by Glauber B. Menezes, Ricardo S. Oliveira, Ayrton B. M. Ferreira, Tereza V. L. Assis, Elias S. Batista, Jon Oliver, Rhodri S. Lloyd, Arnaldo L. MortattiThis study aims to determine whether motor coordination influences the perception-decision time (perceptual-cognitive factor) and movement response time (physical factor) of young soccer players in a sport-specific agility task regardless of maturation. Eighty-seven young male soccer players were analysed. Anthropometric measurements were used to determine the maturity offset, while physical qualities including agility, change of direction speed (CODS) and motor coordination were also assessed. The following variables were obtained from these tests: Motor coordination score, perception-decision time, movement response time, agility time and CODS time. Motor coordination revealed a non-significant correlation with perception-decision time (r = 0.10, p = 0.34). However, motor coordination showed negative and significant correlations with CODS time (r = −0.47, p < 0.01), agility time (r = −0.52, p < 0.01) and movement response time (r = −0.62, p < 0.01). In addition, regression analysis showed that each increase in motor coordination score was associated with significant decreases in agility time (b = −0.023), movement response time (b = −0.021) and CODS time (b = −0.021) independent of maturity offset. The results of this study indicated that motor coordination was significantly related to the physical factors of agility in young soccer players.
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Sports BiomechanicsPublisher
Taylor & FrancisAcceptance Date
2021-10-14Publication Date
2021-10-28Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Citation
Menezes, G.B., Oliveira, R.S., Ferreira, A.B., Assis, T.V., Batista, E.S., Oliver, J.L., Lloyd, R.S. and Mortatti, A.L., (2021) 'Does motor coordination influence perceptual-cognitive and physical factors of agility in young soccer players in a sport-specific agility task?', Sports Biomechanics, pp.1-14. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2021.1995476Print ISSN
1476-3141Electronic ISSN
1752-6116Cardiff Met Affiliation
- Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences
Cardiff Met Research Centre/Group
- High Performance
- Youth Physical Development
Copyright Holder
- © The Authors
Language
- en