Do professional footballers only succeed in their physical performance? A recent study sheds amazing light on players’ mental relaxation.
Expectations, decision -making, reflecting strategy … behind the performance of the largest athletes, not only muscles, but also sharp academic skills. And football, which is often considered as a simple game, actually requires more advanced intellectual skills than our imagination.
This was published in a research published in the Journal in January PlusoonPerformed jointly by Oxford University and Carolnska InstituteWhich has shown that professional footballers have more academic skills.
Which makes professional players very special
Researchers analyzed the academic performance of more than 200 professional players playing in Brazil and Sweden. Their studies have focused on numerous aspects, including memory, ResolutionResolution Problems and executive functions.
« Countless people dream of becoming a footballer, but only a few rare people are able to achieve this goal. We wanted to know what Elite makes players so special and determines their success “Principal author, Dr. Leonardo Bonnity, a researcher at the Psychological Department of Oxford University, said.
Comparing these results with a group of non -sporting, with a level of education and similar social backgrounds, they found that the footballers systematically achieved better scores. IssueIssue Academic flexibility, planning and working memory.
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But the most impressive executive functions in the field of their superiority, the essential essential academic process of the rapid decision, the management of multiple tasks simultaneously and adapt to changes.
Researchers explain in their publication that the ability to expect multiple steps and adapt to a permanent evolution environment in real time is probably a very decisive factor for success in dynamic sports like football.
Results that confirm previous studies
This discovery is a continuation of the first research published in 2012 Plusoon. Researchers have already observed that First Division’s footballers performed well in fields such as creativity, mental flexibility and multiple tasks simultaneously, scores in the lower divisions compared to players. It has been achieved for these people too much and more widely. Non -game
These results support the idea that being a professional footballer requires mental skills, which is better in many years of training and competition. Recently. , If everyone can play football, only a few brains only combine the ability to become a great professional.
