The hamstrings are the most common location of injuries in football (37%), in which biceps femoris long head (BFlh) is the most injured muscle (86%). These injuries can cause structural disruption at the muscle and connective tissue level. Muscle architecture properties seems to be related...

Effect of support foot placement on football instep kick performance. Ou YC, Lei MK, Cheng KB. Sci Med Footb. 2022 Mar 17. doi: 10.1080/24733938.2022.2055781. Online ahead of print. To investigate the kick performance under different support foot positions, 10 male footballers performed a maximum ball speed kick...

High-speed training in a specific context in soccer: transition games. Asian-Clemente J, Rabano-Munoz A, Requena B, Suarez-Arrones L. Int J Sports Med. 2022 Mar 10. doi: 10.1055/a-1794-9567. This study compares the load of three soccer training tasks: a transition game, a small-sided game with a change of playing...

Interchangeability of player movement variables from different athlete tracking systems in professional soccer. Ellens S, Hodges D, McCullagh S, Malone JJ, Varley MC. Sci Med Footb. 2022 Feb;6(1):1-6. doi: 10.1080/24733938.2021.1879393. Epub 2021 Feb 19. This study assessed the interchangeability between 10-Hz multi-GNSS GPS devices (Vector®) and two optical...

Relationships of Final Velocity at 30-15 Intermittent Fitness Test and Anaerobic Speed Reserve with Body Composition, Sprinting, Change-of-Direction and Vertical Jumping Performances: A Cross-Sectional Study in Youth Soccer Players. Silva AF, Alvurdu S, Akyildiz Z, Clemente FM. Biology (Basel). 2022 Jan 27;11(2):197. doi: 10.3390/biology11020197. This study on 124...