Visual, visuomotor, and kinesthetic abilities in football players: their relationship with sport-specific performance and trainability
Congcong Weng, Dongxu Gao, Xiushen Dong, Yuqing Gao, Qiangquan Wang, Jiayu Wang, Junzhe Zou, Lihao Shan, Honglei Zhang · 2026
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Congcong Weng and co-authors review the senses behind soccer skill, in a paper published in 2026. Beyond fitness and technique, players follow the game, react fast, and feel where their own body is. The review groups these skills into three domains: vision, the link from sight to movement, and kinesthetic sense, the feel of joints and balance.
For each domain they ask how it is measured, how it tracks match play, and whether training improves it. Players beat non-athletes on most markers, and some markers split players by level, role, and age. Work with strobe glasses, lights, or balance drills lifts lab scores each time, but gains on the field are weaker and less sure. The authors treat the three domains as one chain from seeing to acting, and urge tests that copy real match demands.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Congcong Weng, Dongxu Gao, Xiushen Dong, Yuqing Gao, Qiangquan Wang, Jiayu Wang, Junzhe Zou, Lihao Shan, Honglei Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |