Goalkeeper: an Application for Goalkeepers Evaluation

Abstract

Statistic are commonly used in football to analyze a players performance. Their application is done through the scout, a method of data collection that is seen as the actions of the athletes regarding the technical and/or tactical aspects. After reviewing the literature, we realized even though there are several softwares for scouting applications, they do not perform a thorough avaluation of a goalkeeper actions. The goal of this work is to develop a scout system with support to the evaluation of goalkeepers, called Goalkeeper. The purpose of the system is to assist physical education professionals and goalkeeping instructors in conducting their instructor's training by analyzing statistical statutes on a player's performance. The software was developed for the Android platform in order to allow the mobility of the user and use an application, since an evaluation can be performed through a videos, training camps or games. In order to evaluate the application, a questionnaire was applied to specialists. The results obtained were considered promising and allowed to observe the users' interest in the system.

Keywords

• football statistics
• scout
• goalkeeper
• android