Technical-associative analysis of the centre in winning and losing handball teams

Abstract

Winning is the ultimate goal of high-performance sports. In handball, a sport in which the number of goals scored is high, identifying the small details and the factors that lead to the team's success is of particular importance to elite athletics. The objective of this study is to identify the technical differences and levels of association with teammates evinced by centres in teams who win and lose in their offensive phase. For this purpose, an observational methodology was used, taking all the offensive actions of the centres in all the matches played during the 2017-2018 Asobal Cup as the sample and creating an ad-hoc instrument called the Inob-FOB to record the data. The validity of the instrument was developed within the Theory of Generalisability (TG). Pearson's chi-squared statistic and polar coordinates were used to analyse the data. The absence of significant differences in the different technical moves analysed (throws: p