Amsterdam --
When the results of this study is the Czech storm giant and former Bundesliga star Jan Koller (36, feeling 2.02 meters tall) confirms:
Dutch researchers have identified in the analysis of more than 100,000 foul decisions in the Bundesliga and in international championships, that larger football players in unclear circumstances often foul to get the debt than smaller ones.
The investigation will be published in the February issue of the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology.
Referees remain in chaotic situations often no choice but to rely on their instincts as to said Niels van Quaquebeke of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. "It is likely that the apparent height of a player than flows with additional information included in decision making."
From evolutionary research is long been known that larger and more powerful people are often from other "with concepts of aggression and dominance associated.
Van Quaquebeke and his colleague Steffen Giessner compared in their study, the respective body size of players in all 85,262 fouls that were punished in the Bundesliga seasons 2000/2001 to 2006/2007. They also studied the outcome of all 32,142 punishing fouls in the UEFA Champions League during the same period and among a total of 6440 decisions of the past three foul FIFA World Cups (1998, 2002 and 2006).
