ReviewFrontiers in sports and active living2022
A review of the essential visual skills required for soccer: Beyond 20-20 optometry.
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- Visio-Spatial Skills in Amateur Taekwondo Athletes Compared with Non-Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Enhancing physical, technical, tactical, and cognitive performance in female youth football players using eye-tracking and neurofeedback training: an exploratory study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Attentional mechanisms in light training tasks.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Validation of an Eye-Foot Coordination Assessment Tool for Children in Dual-Task Condition.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The effects of simulated monocular and binocular vision impairment on football penalty kick performance.European journal of sport science · 2024Article
- Acute effects of prismatic adaptation on penalty kick accuracy and postural control in young soccer players: A pilot study.Heliyon · 2024Article
- A 16-week school-based intervention improves physical fitness in Slovenian children: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Visual skills essential for rugby.Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal · 2023Review
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Abstract
In ball sports such as soccer, the visual system is critical in guiding a player's search for crucial information that underpins skillful behavior, which requires the incorporation of all of the relevant information in the environment in order to make successful decisions under pressure. However, vision in sport, and focusing on the specific visual skills required to be successful in a particular sport has largely been a practice ignored by experts and coaches as being an essential component of athletic performance. This is the first attempt to summarize and compile the necessary visual skills for soccer. This review's evidence suggests that, while current research still tends to focus on visual skills as a whole, there is a need to streamline this focus to the necessities of a particular sport. Furthermore, in identifying the visual skills essential for soccer, it allows for the effective training and testing of these skills, as well as for talent identification.
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