Soccer players sometimes suffer from performance failures in competitive matches that do not correspond to their level of competitiveness. Two undergraduate soccer-specific physical education students, six master's degree students in soccer-specific physical education, one doctoral degree student in soccer-specific physical education, four primary and secondary school soccer coaches, one in-service teacher in a highly efficient soccer academy, and one active professional soccer player of the First Division of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) were used as the interview subjects for the study using Concept Mapping. The results found that the factors causing soccer players to play poorly were three aspects: the actual situation during the game, their own competitive level and the actual situation before the game, specifically including the emotional situation during the game, external factors during the game, their own competitive ability, their own psychological quality and quality of consciousness, the unfavorable factors before the game, and the adjustment of the pre-game setup in six dimensions.

Luo Kunlin, Huang Xiaoling. Concept Mapping of Play Failure Factors in Soccer Players. Frontiers in Sport Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 10: 17-25. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSR.2023.051004.

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