n sports, the awareness that cognitive-perceptual abilities, such as anticipation, decision-making, and
awareness of the situation are prerequisites for excellent performance is increasingly spread. Experienced
athletes develop, as a result of a long practice, sophisticated task-specific knowledge structures that enable
them to deal with situations more effectively and efficiently than others. Elite athletes, for example, selectively
perform a visual scan of the scene, focusing their attention on relevant sources and discarding irrelevant
information at the same time. Additionally, experienced athletes are more aware of events that can be
probabilistically occurring in a given situation and are able to capture contextual signals that can facilitate
predicting future events. These skills act in complementarity with a vast repertoire of strategies and tactics
available and with the knowledge of their rapid speediness in a given situatio