Our current study goes beyond previous attempts and the coordination of all the players (and also of the ball) are analyzed in formal football
This work is one of the first studies in a new interdisciplinary research field in which team sports are considered from the perspective of collective behavior. Previous studies are scarce, but in one nice recent study, Yokoyama and Yamamoto [9] analyzed spatiotemporal coupling and synchronization of humans playing a 3 vs. 1 football possession game. Our current study goes beyond previous attempts and the coordination of all the players (and also of the ball) are analyzed in formal football