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28 Dec Effects of Resisted Sprints with Changes of Direction through Several Relative Loads on Physical Performance in Soccer Players

Posted at 00:00h in Paper of the week

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The physical abilities associated with accelerations, decelerations, and rapid changes of direction (CODs) are considered key components in the match demands of various team-sports (Abdelkrim et al., 2010). A recent systematic review showed that there are approximately 500 to 3000 changes of activity throughout...

22 Dec Stem Cells Therapy for Tendinopathy in Football Players

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Dr. Jesús Olmo is a specialist in Rehabilitation and Prevention of orthopedic and sports injuries, as well as expert in the health and performance of professional athletes. He is co-founder and director of the Football Science Institute. After heading the medical services of the Spanish...

14 Dec Analysis of Physical and Technical Performance of Substitute Players in Professional Soccer

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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Soccer coaches have limited resources to change the course of the match (Rey et al., 2015). In this regard, efficient management of substitutions may contribute to sustaining or reverting the score-line of a match (Carling et al., 2015; Reyet al., 2015). There are a...

09 Dec Positioning and deciding: key factors for talent development in soccer

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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Although millions of children play soccer worldwide, only a few achieve the top-level. Talent identification (TI) is essential to select and recognize youth players who will be successful in professional leagues. However, TI is a very complex and largely unexplored process. The majority of...

04 Dec Locomotion and athletic performance, jump and sprint by Jean B. Morin

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His activity currently includes collaborations with international sports structures in France (French clubs and federations of athletics, rugby, volleyball, INSEP), and abroad (USA, England, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, Japan), he also works on US sports, in relation to jump and sprint performance. His research has...