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Shan, G. Identification of Soccer Scoring Techniques. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/32134 (accessed on 16 April 2024).
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This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/app122110886

The immense charm of soccer to millions of players and spectators can be traced back to the most prime idea of the game: to score goals—an idea that will always be captivating. This basic idea shapes the soccer scoring technique (SST) to be the crucial and final determinant of every offensive-maneuver fate of any team. Therefore, the identification of SSTs is particularly important.

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1. Introduction

The immense charm of soccer to millions of players and spectators can be traced back to the most prime idea of the game: to score goals—an idea that will always be captivating. This basic idea shapes the soccer scoring technique (SST) to be the crucial and final determinant of every offensive-maneuver fate of any team [1]. It is well known that goals are relatively rare in soccer. Various ways in which a team goes towards scoring a goal can be considered an extemporaneous show, where emotion increases over time and is suddenly released after a goal is scored [2][3]. As such, various SSTs for scoring goals are ultimately the source of excitement that make soccer the number one sport in the world [2][4]. Since diverse SSTs are the last destination that determines the outcome of every “emotional drama,” the quality of performing these SSTs is obviously an essential core of soccer coaching and training; of course, it should be a focus of biomechanical investigations on soccer. Unfortunately, biomechanical studies on various SSTs fall far behind the practice, resulting in a practical scenario that most participants acquire SSTs through personal experience without research-based instruction [3][5][6].
Nowadays, in professional games, airborne shots happen more often and the time for making a shot is becoming tighter. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) has impressively portrayed the trend as “every nanosecond is special” [7]. These emerging airborne SSTs, such as bicycle kick, jumping side volley, dividing scorpion kick, and more, appear to be exceptionally complex and are widely regarded as the natural ability of soccer superstars [8]. However, one thing is clear: that these superb SSTs are trained motor skills. Research shows that biomechanical quantification on virtuosic humans can make these skills clearer and easier to be learned, i.e., knowledge gained from biomechanical studies can help us learn complex motor skills while reducing the risk of training-related injuries [9][10][11][12]. Clearly, relying on athletes’ talent to improve these superb SSTs can hardly be considered a viable learning strategy. Biomechanical studies will play an import role in helping practitioners launch science-based (not experience-based) motor learning to optimize their practice.

2. Identification of SSTs

In soccer, shots lead to goals and goals win games. Hence, it is logical for both researchers and practitioners to explore all means that could increase the chance and effectiveness of shots taken. Until now, practitioners have unearthed numerous SSTs that can be applied in various game situations; in contrast, scientific investigations (especially biomechanical studies) have only been conducted in a few of the SSTs seen in the game [3][5]. This scenario has resulted in the lack of science-based SST training in current soccer practice. Until 2021, neither researchers nor practitioners knew how many SSTs were available for the game [3]. As such, the names/terms of SSTs used in public broadcasting, documentations, and reports were confusing, e.g., the jumping side volley was often misreported in the professional leagues as a bicycle kick [13][14][15][16]. As matter of a fact, the former is a side-kick technique and the latter is an overhead-kick skill. In order to reduce the ambiguity and increase clarity in both research and training practice, every SST has to be clearly defined.
In 2021, Zhang et al. established the first terminological system for clearly identifying various SSTs [3]. The research team collected 579 elite soccer goals from international professional tournaments for their study. The essential rule of their collection was that every goal was clearly repeatable, i.e., trainable. From the point view of biomechanics, different SSTs should be linked to certain anatomical parts and show distinct motor-control parameters. Therefore, their identification of SSTs was performed by applying both anatomical and biomechanical parameters. The anatomical parameters included segments and the anatomical landmarks on the segments used during shots. The biomechanical parameters covered the variables describing the dynamic instants of various shooting situations. These variables are associated with ball spatial position, impact style on the ball, jump style, body/trunk orientation at the instant of shooting, and shot control. Figure 1 summarizes the variables applied in the terminological system. Some examples of unique SSTs are shown in Table 1.
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Figure 1. Anatomical and biomechanical parameters used in the identification of SSTs.
Zhang’s study identified 43 SSTs, which were divided into basic SSTs (14 out of 43) and advanced SSTs (29 out of 43). Among the basic SSTs, the widely trained ones were max instep kick, pass kick, chip/lob kick, curl kick, and header. The rarely trained ones were trivela kick and knuckleball kick [3][17][18][19]. Regarding the advanced SSTs, they are complex motor skills, normally known as air-attack or gymnastic-like techniques. Therefore, they are characterized as high risk and low reward. So far, they have been neglected by training books and/or manuals and almost overlooked by researchers [3][5].
It is worth mentioning that ~60% of the 43 identified SSTs are targeted at airborne attacks [3]. Although there are no statistical data available for an overall percentage of airborne-attack goals, two recently established databases present thoughtful results. The two database are (1) 579 brilliant goals selected by experts from soccer’s flagship tournaments, such as FIFA, UEFA (Union of European Football Associations), and the top professional soccer leagues, i.e., La Liga/Spain, Serie A/Italy, Bundesliga/Germany, Premier League/England, and Ligue 1/French [3], and (2) 132 nominees‘ goals of the FIFA Puskás Award 2009–2021 [20]. The two databases show that the percentage of airborne-attack goals is 49.6% and 56.1%, respectively. Given the current scenario, i.e., the lack of scientific research on airborne and/or acrobatic shots, the only way left for practitioners to learn is to impersonate and duplicate these complex shooting skills blindly. This non-systematical skill requisition can be hit or miss, depending largely on the player’s ability of cognitive understanding and associative performance related to the coordination and precision of a new skill, i.e., the so-called talent, as well as a great deal of repetition for the skill’s autonomy [21]. Regardless of the complicated motor coordination related to shot quality during airborne shots, only the high risk of injury during the landing discontinues the repetitive practice for skill autonomy [8][22][23]. Clearly, more biomechanical studies are inevitably needed to unearth elements necessary for systematic training toward the reliable execution of the complex SSTs.
Table 1. Examples of unique SSTs. Except for the bicycle kick [8][22], jumping side volley [8][23], and knuckleball kick [24][25], there are still no reports on the biomechanical studies of the rest of the unique SSTs.
SST Anatomical
Parameters		 Biomechanical Parameters
Bicycle kick Foot, instep Airborne ball, hit-on-center, vertical jump, trunk lean backward horizontally, forward kick
Jumping side volley Foot, instep Airborne ball, hit-on-center, vertical jump, trunk lean sideward horizontally, forward kick
Jumping front volley Foot, instep Airborne ball, hit-on-center, vertical jump, vertical trunk, forward kick
Long-jump turning header Forehead Airborne ball, hit-on-center, long jump, vertical trunk, head twisting
Diving header Forehead Airborne ball, hit-on-center, long jump, trunk lean forward horizontally
Diving scorpion kick Foot, heel Airborne ball, hit-on-center, long jump, trunk lean forward horizontally, backward kick
Trivela kick Foot, outside Ground ball, hit-on-side, no jump, vertical trunk, forward kick
Jumping turning kick Foot, outside Airborne ball, hit-on-center, vertical jump, vertical and twisting trunk
Jumping breaking kick Foot, plantar side Airborne ball, hit-on-center, long jump, vertical trunk
Sliding kick Foot, plantar side Ground ball, hit-on-center, no jump, trunk lean backward horizontally
Knuckleball kick Foot, knuckle area Ground ball, hit-on-center, no jump, vertical trunk, forward kick

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