TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - What do you hear? The effect of stadium noise on football players' passing performances
JO  - European journal of sport science
A1  - Otte, Fabian W.
A1  - Millar, Sarah-Kate
A1  - Klatt, Stefanie
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Stadium noise - created by spectators and fans - plays a critical part in the reality of professional sports. Due to a lack of research on the impact of these auditory cues and multimodal environments on motor performance, it is currently unclear how professional athletes experience and perceive stadium noise and how this potentially affects performance in practice. In order to explore the effect of stadium noise on athletes' performance, this paper presents an experimental design using the unique and standardised football (soccer) training tool known as the 'Footbonaut'. Specifically, fifteen skilled German football players engaged in a standardised football-specific technical training program while subjected to four different auditory training conditions; these included both 'positive' and 'negative' stadium noise conditions, a 'baseline' condition providing auditory guidance, and a 'no (auditory) cue' condition. Performance data for passing accuracy and passing time were measured for training in each auditory condition. A repeated measures MANOVA revealed a significant main effect for passing time. Specifically, participants showed faster passing times in the baseline compared to the negative and no auditory cue conditions. <br><br>FINDINGS are presented and discussed from a constraints-led perspective, allied to principles of ecological dynamics and nonlinear pedagogy. Particularly, the use of representative training experiences (including multimodal sensory and emotional information) appears to underline training to refine expert athletes' adaptive coordination of complex motor actions.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1746-1391
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2020.1809714
ID  - ref1
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