Análise dos gols marcados em partidas disputadas na Copa do Mundo de futebol na Rússia em 2018

Abstract

Football is the sport with the most fans in the world and it is the main sport in Brazil. Most children are born with a dream of being a football player. Nowadays, newspapers, magazines and, mainly, sports programs are focused on the sport, commenting on tactical and technical issues, taking from each club the news for its supporter. And in soccer, the most important factor, decisive and makes the crowd vibrate are the goals. Therefore, this study has as a general objective to analyze the incidence of goals scored in disputed matches of the Soccer World Cup in 2018 in Russia. In the specific part, it has as purpose to describe the regions of game field where the goals occurred in the analyzed games; identify the time of the events occurred in these games; analyze the advantage of making the first goal of the game; and to perceive the form of accomplishment of the goals of the analyzed games. It is a quantitative approach research which analyzed 64 matches of the World Cup in Russia in 2018. The instrument used was analysis sheets of the matches, being formulated specifically for this study. Data were analyzed and tabulated by tables and graphs. The results were that in only one match there were no goals, the highest amount of penalties in the history of the competition and this is due to the aid of the referee of video, predominance of goals scored in the second half due to fatigue and emotional imbalance, high goals scored goals and high average goals per game with 2.62 goals scored and the predominance of goal-scoring within the area and made in the last 15 minutes of play.