ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENCES OF RUNNING PERFOMANCES OF ELITE EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS
Volume 11, Issue 1 (2021)
Volume 11, Issue 1 (2021)
ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENCES OF RUNNING PERFOMANCES OF ELITE EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS
Abstract:
This research is aimed to determine the differences in the racing performances of elite European and Latin American footballers. The research was conducted on a sample of N = 157 top football players, aged 19 to 35, who played all 90 minutes in the fi rst round of the group stage of the competition at the 2018 World Cup. Respondents were classifi ed into two groups, where group I (N = 103) consisted of football teams from Europe, and group II (N = 54), consisted of teams from Latin America. The obtained data showed that 8 o ut of 13 variables have the characteristic of heterogeneity with a higher value of variance than the arithmetic mean. The results of the T-test showed that only 4 of 13 variables had statistically signifi cant diff erences. Footballers from European national teams are on average taller than Latin American footballers by just over 3 cm. European footballers had a 4% greater (p> 0.05) total distance traveled, distance in the fi rst and second half of the game than Latin American footballers.
Keywords:
Football, performance, World Cup
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