THE COGNITIVE ABILITIES OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN RELATION TO COMPETITION RANKING

Ljubiša Lilić, Dragana Aleksić, Dejan Radivojević

The aim of this research is to examine the differences in the cognitive abilities of football players in higher and lower competition rankings. The research was conducted on a sample of 152 football players. The instruments which were used for measuring cognitive abilities were the following: the test for the evaluation of the input processor efficiency, i.e. perceptive reasoning (IT-1), the test for the evaluation of parallel processor efficiency, i.e. seeing the relations and correlates (S-1) and the test for the evaluation of the serial processor efficiency, i.e. symbolic reasoning (AL-4). Along with the basic statistics, the multivariate analysis of MANOVA variance was applied. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between football players of lower and higher competition rankings.

Keywords: football, cognitive abilities, competition ranking.


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