Summary:
In modern football, 30-40% of the total actions take place in static phase situations. The purpose of the study was to study the final actions resulting from static phases of the men's national teams that participated in the 2018 Men's World Cup in Russia and the women's national teams that participated in the 2019 Women's World Cup in France, with the ultimate goal to highlight any possible differences or similarities between men and women in this particular way of acting aggressively.
The data were collected by video analysis of the static phases that resulted in a final action. The videos were released by Wyscout. The sample of the research was the 16 teams of the 16 phase of WC MEN 2018 (N = 103 phases) and the 16 teams of WC WOMEN 2019 (N = 78 phases). The main variables used were: final result, match status, time period, half, style set of play, type set of play, zone of final action, final action, pressure of final action and result of final action. Indicators of descriptive statistics were used, such as mean (M.O.), frequency (f) and relative frequency (f%), while the x2-test was used to compare the frequency distribution. The significance level was set at p <.05.
The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences between men and women in the aggressive actions of the static phases (p> 0.05). Most static phases come from INDIRECT SET PLAY and most of the final operations from static phase took place in the space of small and large area (box).
In 15.47% of the static phases a goal was scored without a significant difference between men and women, while the largest percentage of final actions ended up out of focus. In conclusion, it is recommended, the regular preparation of the teams through analysis of the offensive and defensive actions of the opponent during static phases and the training of the teams under conditions of pressure and realistic static playing situations.
