Football equipment is fashionable. But more than fashion, they are strategy. Its color seems to have a significant impact on sports performance.
The time began; and adherents both debate their club’s hiring, the coach’s options, as the new equipment.
One revealed that the sweater color can give teams a performance advantage, especially red.
Interestingly, at that time teams such as Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and AC Milan were in great shape.
Since then, this effect of red equipment has conducted the biggest success has been analyzed in detail by science.
In Portugal, we know that the “incarnates” are the most titled club. But at the Premier League, for example, more than half of all the champions wore the main red equipment.
But it’s not just in football. This one analyzed the 2004 Olympic Games and found that in Combat Sportswhere the red and blue colors are randomly attributed, Athletes who wear red tend to come out winners.
These effects were also proven by science in and even in.
But why this? The Sport Psychology Specialist, Zoe Wimshurstexplains, in an article, that, from a cultural and biological perspective, the Red is associated with dominance and aggressiveness.
On the one hand, dressing red shows increasing feelings of dominance of the players. On the other hand, an opponent who is dressing red is perceived as more threatening.
Polemic: “And the referees…”
2008, also showed that referees of Taekwondo, for example, attribute more points to red fighters than blue – Even when digital manipulation allows them to see exactly the same fight with inverted colors.
this time in football, also revealed that the strikers mark Less goals when they face a goalkeeper wearing red.
There are other useful colors
O gold is a strong competitor because it offers high visibility both in daylight and under the spotlight.
Lighter colors that will offer a high contrast against the lawn They will also stand out.
Psychologists call this “color singletons”shades that are unique in the visual field. Science shows that our attention is automatically attracted to them.
Unusual colors that are unlikely to coincide with those found on the lawn or advertising signs will make players easier to detect num lance.
The standards also matter. High contrast stripesfor example, they can help separate an object in motion from your background.
Camouflage effect
Despite this evidence, not a single Premier League club chose red for alternative equipment this season. Instead, there are some new choices like LILAS, Cream and Turquoise.
A previous example of a new equipment choice not to work so well was in 1996 when Manchester United’s infamous gray equipment was abandoned in the middle of the game after losing 3-0 with Southampton.
The coach, Alex Ferguson, said the players could not see each other clearly. It wasn’t just an excuse, the gray was confused with the concrete of the stadium and the various colors of the benches.
Biology attests these theories
Camouflage effects like this are well documented in biology.
In fact, animals depend on this techniques to make predatement by predators more difficult. In a football stadium, gray or brown can have the same effect.
The new Brentford Alternative Brown Equipmentfor example, risks a similar problem, especially under closed or concrete -back benches.
Black equipment may also fade in the background, particularly under low light conditions where there is reduced contrast.
At this time, staying at Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Aston Villa have all black alternative nightgown that could lead to the least visibility among teammates.
But camouflage is not limited to cuddled color. THE Newcastle’s green alternative equipment, though bright, is likely to be founded with the lawnparticularly in the peripheral perception of players where the human visual system was not designed to see colors clearly.
Another subtle visual trap is the “countershading”a gradient that goes from dark to light found in many animals to make them less detectable.
In football, a dark nightgown with clear shorts can also confuse. This is great for a deer to avoid predators, less useful for the midfielder who is trying to locate your striker in the “space”.
So why don’t you use clubs to select equipment? Probably the answer is… in style.
“Color is not just fashion. It is also linked to psychology, perception and physics. The right shade can make you unmistakable, the wrong can make you disappear. In elite sport, with such thin margins between success and failure, the color of equipment is something that should not be neglected,” concludes Zoe Wimshurst.
