30 Jun Tips on what footballers need to do to keep their feet in prime condition
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29 May Lockdown and Return to Performance: think about your shoes!
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Modern sport shoes, and especially football shoes, very often have a stiff sole structure. The synthetic and sometimes carbon material used have clear advantages for performance: they are lightweight and have a good energy absorption-restitution ratio, which is useful for overall performance in sprinting, cutting,...
15 May New partnership agreement with Flexvit
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Flexvit Band is a manufacturer of elastic bands, which enables the use of elastic materials within the training routines under an innovative concept that combines the multiple benefits of band-assisted training (FLEX) on a daily basis in health and productivity (VIT), using a material which...
04 May Heading Incidence: UEFA study
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The effect of heading on brain structure has been a topic of debate in last months since England banned these actions on children during training sessions (USA banned in 2015). There are many investigations that have reported data on heading and brain injuries in...
27 Apr Interlimb Asymmetries after ACLr
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK A complete ACL rupture in a professional football player is a potentially career-threatening injury. In professional football practically all the ACL ruptures are surgically reconstructed (ACLr) and entail a time-loss highly variable ranging between 6 to 12 months of rehabilitation. Also, and as described...
23 Apr Football Science Institute and The Swedish FA (SvFF) reach partnership agreement
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Football Science Institute and Swedish FA have reached an agreement with the objective to enhance and develop the quality of education for both parties within the realm of sports science application to football performance. "During the development of the upcoming football fitness education, we have done...
20 Apr Acute Response to Water Ingestion on Body Composition
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INTRODUCTION & PURPOSE Hydration status affects the body composition estimates from bioelectrical impedance (BIA). This lack of concern with hydration status and liquid/food ingestion in the accuracy of Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) measurement is also present in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey documentation of DXA assessment procedures....
15 Apr Running Demands, Anthropometric, and Physical Fitness Characteristics
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INTRODUCTION & PURPOSE Physical performance is assessed for several purposes in soccer. Assessments can be conducted using laboratory based tests or field-based assessments. However, high ecological validity is necessary (high construct validity), and this can be through evaluation of the potential associations between data derived from...