“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...
1. Why the Chosen Ones May Not Always Be the Best Leaders: Criteria for Captain Selection as Predictors of Leadership Quality and Acceptance. Butalia R(1), Fransen K(1), Coffee P(2), Laenens J(1), Boen F(1). Author information: (1) Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. (2) Faculty of...
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Physical performance testing is crucial to create and design more effective and tailored training programs. In addition, profiling athletes’ physical characteristics is important to understand the discrepancies in physical performance with aging, furthering the ability of soccer clubs to make informed and rational investments....
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Hypohydration is known to decrease plasma volume and increase plasma osmotic pressure. Although the increased plasma osmotic pressure mobilizes fluid from the intracellular space into the extracellular space, this amount of fluid is not sufficient to totally restore plasma volume (Kenefick and Cheuvront 2016)....
1. SARS-CoV-2 transmission during rugby league matches: do players become infected after participating with SARS-CoV-2 positive players? Ben Jones, Gemma Phillips, Simon Kemp, Brendan Payne, Brian Hart, Matthew Cross, Keith A Stokes. Carnegie Applied Rugby Research (CARR) centre, Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK...