Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Department of Management, Economics and Progress Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran.
2 Department of Management, Economics, and Progress Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: Football is one of the most visited social and sports fields which could be able to allocate a huge amount of the economy’s circulating capital. Football has been changed smoothly by improved science and technology and the transformative atmosphere of the fourth industrial and fifth social revolutions. Cognitive science is one of the topics based on today's technology that monitors concepts such as perception, consciousness, memory, and learning; therefore, football needs cognitive sciences to maintain its dynamics and update its methods and data.
Methods: First, football categories based on content analysis were classified in a decision tree. Then, football indicators based on cognitive science were prioritized with the fuzzy hierarchical analysis method.
Results: 16 final factors in 5 sections, including cognitive talent identification, technical quality, psychological issues, injury, and the near future as the most important football factors from a cognitive point of view with the help of GAMS software were identified. Also, cognitive talent development, knowledge and skill of the player, mental and psychological issues in the match, recovery, and improvement of the professional conditions of the player were the most important factors of each five categories.
Conclusion: Creating a scientific policy in football with focus on cognitive science to organize football in Iran, especially in the toddler, and junior leagues, leads to some opportunities for club owners, managers, coaches, and players’ families to test the skill and quality of a football player in a serious challenge. If the player has enough capacity, he will be ready to get trained and achieve experience also entering the professional life of sports will happen soon.
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