La carga mental deteriora la precisión del pase en jugadores de fútbol Alarcón, Francisco Castillo Díaz, Alberto Madinabeitia, Iker Castillo Rodríguez, Alfonso Cárdenas Vélez, David Dual-task Cognitive workload Anxiety Motor performance Attentional control During the competition, soccer players must make both physical and mental e orts simultaneously. is dual-task situation impairs performance in skills that require precision only in those athletes who do not have automated those skills. However, there has been little control over the nature and magnitude of the mental load that athletes experience during play actions, and to what extent such a load is detrimental to athletic performance. In order to advance this knowledge, a counter-balanced intrasubject study was designed with repeated post-condition measures on two conditions, a speci c physical and coordinating task of soccer, and a dual-task in which the main task was maintained and in which the secondary had cognitive control requirements. Twenty-eight male semi-professional players participated [middle age = 20.07 years (± 0.23)]. e presence of physical charge simultaneous to the mental load had a negative e ect on accuracy. In turn, the emotional states aroused in the double task predicted performance in the motor task. Forcing the player to have to use their attentional resources in the mental task seems not to allow an adequate use of the available information necessary for an e cient adjustment of the action. 2019-11-06T11:54:47Z 2019-11-06T11:54:47Z 2018 journal article Alarcón, F., Castillo-Díaz, A., Madinabeitia, I., Castillo-Rodríguez, A., & Cárdenas, D. (2018). La carga mental deteriora la precisión del pase en jugadores de fútbol. Revista de Psicología del Deporte/Journal of Sport Psychology. Vol. 27. nº2 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/57711 spa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/ open access Atribución-CompartirIgual 3.0 España Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona