Nowadays virtual reality (VR) technology has been applied to many aspects of soccer training, and corresponding studies have been conducted in technical skills, cognitive psychology, tactical ability, and, sports rehabilitation. This paper explores the impact of VR on soccer training by reviewing a large amount of literature and integrating, summarizing, and concluding it. It has been found that VR has a significant effect on improving the technical skills, cognitive psychology, tactical ability, and sports rehabilitation of soccer players. For enhancing sports performance in the real world, VR technology has great potential for development in the future. However, it remains to be seen whether VR will be widely used by athletes, coaches, and sports organizations. With the current state of development, the functionality of VR systems will become more and more powerful in the future, as well as less costly, providing a more convenient channel for its application and popularization in soccer. Although the scientific evidence to prove its effectiveness is still weak, the practice of VR and soccer training innovations will occur more frequently and be more closely integrated with other advanced technologies, so that future research on this topic will be richer, deeper, and more comprehensive.
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