Through this agreement, Microgate, a leading global company that operates in four development fields: Professional Timing, Training, Medical Rehabilitation and Sports Engineering, present in more than 30 countries, and FSI, the global platform of professionals, teachers, and experts for the development of soccer, reinforce their...
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Linear sprint, change of direction (COD), and vertical jump performances play key roles in soccer. These capabilities can be improved through the use of various training strategies (Salaj and Markovic, 2011). Among the different approaches, resisted sprint training (RST) has been shown to be...
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Soccer players are required to develop multiple physical qualities including strength, speed, and aerobic capacity. They frequently undertake technical and tactical training sessions (Hoff and Helgerud, 2004; Sparkes et al., 2018) and, thus, concurrent training effects are often observed (Hoff and Helgerud, 2004; Sparkes...
Alberto is currently the owner and CEO of Excentric, a training and recovery centre. Since May 2020, he is also the physical trainer and readaptor of Sara Sorribes Tormo, a professional tennis player ranking 65 in the WTA. Alberto has extensive background in injury reconditioning and...
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Sport-related concussion is a subset of mild traumatic brain injury induced by a blow either directly to the head or to another part of the body with the force being transmitted to the head (McCrory et al., 2017). A concussion results in a short-lived...
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Soccer is a high-intensity team-sport that demands high levels of physical and technical skills, which results in a relatively elevated injury rate. Overall, international soccer players exhibit an injury frequency equal to 9.4 injuries/1000 h of soccer practice (Waldén et al., 2005). Two different...
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...
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...
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...