(1.School of Sports Science,Soochow University,Suzhou 215021,China;2.School of Sports Science and Research Center of Nationalistic Constitution and Health,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China) Abstract: From the perspective of homeostasis, the authors discussed the effects of factors such as altitude, latitude, uniform color, age and figure on competition results, and put forward the following opinions: the players’ sports performance is maintained by football specific homeostasis (FbSH); FbSH can resist minor interference, but will be broken by stresses; a stress in a stress specific homeostasis (StSH) can successfully turn FbSH1 into FbSH2; how-ever, since it is impossible for multiple simultaneously occurring stresses to be in a StSH respectively, FbSH has to be broken, which causes the deterioration of competition performance; In games in FIFA World Cup, the difference in latitude between competition participating countries and the hosting country may produce a sunlight stress; the stronger the sunlight stress, the greater the chances to lose. Key words: exercise physiology;South Africa World Cup;homeostasis |