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...
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...
Providing efficient evidence-based options to enhance sprint performance training is crucial for strength and conditioning coaches in high level soccer settings. Jean-Benoit Morin offers us this video analyzing the keys to study carried out together with Johan Lahti, Toni Huuhka, Valentin Romero, Ian Bezodis, and...
“The global platform of professionals, teachers and experts dedicated to the promotion of Sports Science for the development of soccer has signed a collaboration agreement with the club. Thanks to this agreement, the technicians of the Academy will jointly develop a scientific research project, so...
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Soccer is characterized by repeated high-intensity actions performed throughout a match, interspersed with low-intensity recovery periods (Mohr et al., 2005). Players regularly cover total distances ranging between 10–13 km, with about 10% being travelled at high-speed running (HSR) and sprinting, (Mohr et al., 2005)....
1. The prognostic value of the hamstring outcome score to predict the risk of hamstring injuries. van de Hoef PA, Brink MS, van der Horst N, van Smeden M, Backx FJG. Analysis of data of 356 amateur soccer players showed that the hamstring outcome score (HaOS) questionary...
Thomas Odegaard is the Head Physio of Strømsgodset IF (Norway) and the Norwegian national football team. He is also a personal physiotherapist of professional footballer Martin Odegaard. He is an expert in injury reconditioning for professional football players. ...
1. The Moral Gatekeeper: Soccer and Technology, the Case of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) Tamir I, Bar-Eli M. This paper argues that, despite fierce objections and extensive criticism, VAR represents a moral revolution in the evolution of the sport as a whole, improving the professional standards, its...
Professor Rob Duffield is a sports & exercise scientist at the University of Technology Sydney. He also works as Head of Research & Development for Football Federation Australia (FFA). His research areas include factors related to fatigue and recovery, sleep and travel, training and cooling...