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      Deconstructing celebratory acts following goal scoring among elite professional football players

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          Goal celebration in sport is mostly spontaneous and is manifested via vocal expressions and bodily gestures aimed at communicating emotions. The aim of this study is to deconstruct the celebratory acts among elite professional football players in the European Champions League following scoring a goal, and to capture the multiple acts and functions of the celebrations. In examining the 2018/19 season of the European Champions League tournament, we draw attention to the players’ celebrations and their corresponding social and individual functions. All goals/celebrations ( K = 366) were used for the analyses. To analyze the goal celebration acts, a socio-psychological model was established which is comprised of several theories. To describe the goal celebration acts across the competition stages (e.g., preliminary and final), match location (i.e., home or away), time phase (0–15, 15–45, 45–75, 75–90, 90+ minutes), scoring mode (i.e., prior to the goal, after the goal), and players’ continent origin (Europe, Africa, Asia, South/Central, and North America), the number and percent of all the celebratory acts were counted and presented in their respective mode (i.e., single, double, and team). The main findings indicate that (a) most of the goal celebration acts were performed interactively by the scoring player and his teammates, (b) the interactive modes of celebration lasted longer than the modes which were performed non-interactively, (c) the celebration lasted longer following goal scoring in the final stage than in the preliminary stage, (d) the celebration duration lasted the longest time when the goal was scored during the overtime phase (90+ min) of the final but not the preliminary stage, and (e) players from Africa and South America demonstrated religious acts more than their European counterparts. We assert that our conceptual model enables the categorization of a variety of personal and social meanings to the celebrations on the field during the most thrilling moments of the game.

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                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                16 September 2020
                2020
                : 15
                : 9
                : e0238702
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Sports Therapy, Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono, Israel
                [2 ] Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
                [3 ] Sport, Media and Society (SMS) Research Lab, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
                [4 ] Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
                Jacobs University Bremen, GERMANY
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6254-1326
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-5675
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                PONE-D-20-00271
                10.1371/journal.pone.0238702
                7494092
                32936807
                6a9f79b0-1bda-49e9-ab08-881755471a73
                © 2020 Lev et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 4 January 2020
                : 21 August 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 11, Tables: 2, Pages: 20
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