Biomechanic Kick In Soccer

The main goal of soccer is to outscore your opponent in the matter of a minimum ninety minute game (Katis, 2012). The game of soccer consists of eleven players from each team being on the field, ten of those being field players and one being a goalkeeper. Soccer is primarily played only using your lower extremities with the exceptions of headers and trapping the ball with other body parts except your hands. Kicking is the primary action in soccer (Lees, 2010). The most common type of kick in soccer is the instep. The instep of a soccer kick has interested researches in studying the biomechanics of it. Some researches “consider the kick beginning from the way a player approaches the ball to the end of ball flight, the point that determines the success of the kick.” This interest has gotten biomechanics thinking about the kick in terms of the supporting leg, the pelvis in the kicking action, thigh abduction, and knee flexion (Scurr, 2009). The tibialis anterior, rectus femoris, bicep femoris, and the gastrocnemius muscle of the kicking leg were also analyzed (Katis, 2012). The accuracy of the kick depends on different activation of muscles and the position in which the body is in. In a given game, where the target to kick the ball is, is always
Zago says, “the phases of the movement are; the approach run ends when the support heel lands on the ground. The backswing phase: the hip is extended, slowly adducted and externally rotated, the knee flexed and internally rotated, while the ankle is plantar flexed and abducted. Forward motion: the pelvis is rotated around the support leg and the hip starts to flex and abducts while it remains externally rotated. Simultaneously, the ankle is plantar flexed, and knee extension velocity is maximized. Upon impact the hip is flexed, abducted and externally rotated and the ankle plantar flexed and