Dueling in the penalty box: Evidence-based recommendations on how shooters and goalkeepers can win penalty shootouts in soccer

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 209-229

  Memmert, Daniel ^a   Hüttermann, Stefanie ^a   Hagemann, Norbert ^b   Loffing, Florian ^b   Strauss, Bernd ^c  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choking; Goalkeeper; Penalty shootout; Penalty taker

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897061042     PISSN: 1750984X     EISSN: 17509858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1750984X.2013.811533     Document Type: Article

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