The corner kick is an important opportunity to score in football. However although, on average, 10 corners occur per game the ones that achieve goal are very low. Knowing that the ball takes on average between 1500ms and 3000ms to reach the front of the goal (Vicente et al. 2011) and that even 21 players can be involved in this situation it is important to quantify some of the execution times involved so that training should decrease it`s empirical dominance. Methods: Using the model for functional analysis of the corner kicks in football developed by Almada et al. (2010) a laboratorial situation was created where a forward had a defender on its back and tried to pass over him in the shortest possible time, placing himself ahead the opponent (the defender). The defender could move in an area of 1.2meters by 0.6 meters and the forward moved from an area of 0.6m by 0.6m placed behind the defender zone (with three positions: in the middle, the entire left and all the right) and had to reach an identical area placed in front of the defender zone. The sample consisted of 20 football players who assumed the forward and defender functions. Each forward repeated the situation 30 times (10 starting from the center, 10 starting at left and 10 at right). Results: The obtained times varied in a ranged between 690ms and 2420ms with an average of 1380ms (SD+-400ms). There were no significant differences between the times from the three forward starting positions (center, left and right). Discussion: Considering that in the corner kick in football the ball takes in average between 1500ms and 3000ms to reach the front of the goal, and the forward that seeks to gain advantage over the defender in order to be in a better position to be able to intercept the ball route and try to score takes between 690ms and 2420ms to do it, this may mean that the forward has enough time to gain position over the defender by choosing the best moment to do so even after the ball starts. But we must not forget that the forward can know in advance the ball route and the area where it begins to be possible to act over it, so that it is possible an articulation between the different forwards so that their movements can not only give the wrong information to the defenders about what will happen, but also blocking the defenders, preventing them, including the goalkeeper from intercepting the ball.
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