Low sleep quality and morningness-eveningness scale score may impair ball placement but not kicking velocity in youth academy soccer players.
Luiz H Palucci VieiraMichele LastellaJoão Pedro da SilvaTiago CesárioFelipe Balistieri SantinelliGabriel F MorettoPaulo Roberto Pereira SantiagoFabio Augusto BarbieriPublished in: Science & medicine in football (2021)
One-off sleep measures showed some sensitivity to acutely detect inter-individual oscillations in kicking performance. Low perceived sleep quality, later wake up time and a chronotype toward evening preference seem either related to immediately subsequent worst ability of ball placement when kicking. Monitoring sleep-wake transition and perceived sleep quality may be important to help prevent acute performance declines in targeting the goal during kick attempts from the edge of penalty area.