Searching for the perfect goalkeeping personality. Myth or reality?

Background: Psychological factors such as personality characteristics are influential factors of the goalkeeping performance in football (soccer). Not only for individualized treatment in practice, also from a scientific point of view, profiling goalkeepers is a relevant part of understanding athletes. The aim of this study was to investigate personality traits of goalkeepers of different expertise, age, and sex.

How did you perform? Investigating football players' perception of self-regulated passing performances under auditory noise environments.

Introduction: This paper deals with the question on how sport performances may be influenced by internal, emotional processes, which stem from outside feedback.

Methods: In terms of methods, players' subjective performance ratings for four experimental auditory cue conditions were examined; these included both 'positive' and 'negative' stadium noise, 'no (auditory) conditions,' and a control/'baseline' condition. This resulted in a qualitative-analytic data set that was obtained succeeding each auditory cue condition using a unique football training machine (i.