Vol. 5, Issue 2, Part B (2023)

The research included four chapters, as the first chapter contained the introduction and the importance of the research, as thinking in the sports field is considered the main basis for making the appropriate decision in dealing with the variables that face the player in competition, especially that the football game is one of the games that attracts the attention of millions of people around the world. It enjoys the elements of suspense and excitement in addition to building the physical and healthy side and the ability to think in the most difficult circumstances by isolating many variables that occur during the game and focusing on performing the skill, such as delivering the ball correctly to his teammates, and thus it robbed the minds of its viewers and fans to be one of the most important influences society in different countries of the world.
As for the research problem, it lies in the psychological pressures that occur in the football game, including physical, skillful, tactical, cognitive and psychological, on the players during the course of the match, and this is reflected in their thinking when executing the game plans, which have a role in resolving the situation, especially if those plans are well thought out, being guards Goalkeepers are responsible for implementing these plans in a manner that is consistent with the variables of the state of play, and that their exposure to these pressures leads to a lack of tactical behavior affecting reaching the right decisions. Goalkeepers require them to have the appropriate time to go out and deal with the ball and the attacker on the one hand, and to act tactically according to what is appropriate with the movement of the defenders which must be coordinated in order to keep the goal on the other hand.
As for the goal of the research, it is to identify the percentage of the contribution of convergent thinking to the tactical behavior of the goalkeepers of the Premier League in football for the 2021/2022 sports season, and the researcher assumed that there is a high percentage of statistically significant contribution between the convergent thinking and the tactical behavior of the goalkeepers under study. The third chapter was the methodology and procedures of the research in the field the researcher chose the descriptive approach. The research sample consisted of soccer goalkeepers for Premier League clubs, who numbered (80) guards distributed over (20) clubs, where each club represented (4) Goalkeepers or Conclusions The conclusions were the most important of which is the presence of a significant impact of convergent thinking on the tactical behavior of the goalkeepers of the Premier League clubs.