Modric, Toni Versic, Sime Winter, Christan Coll, Ian Chmura, Paweł Andrzejewski, Marcin Konefał, Marek Sekulic, Damir
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This study aimed to determine the effect of team formation on position-specific match running performance (MRP) at highest-level football. Players' MRP (n = 226) was observed in four team formations: 3-5-2 (n = 24), 4-4-2 (n = 44), 4-2-3-1 (n = 77) and 4-3-3 (n = 81). Central defenders in the 3-5-2 formation achieved a greater amount of high-intens...
Marino, Thomas Kisil Ferreira, André Rebêlo Morgans, Ryland Schildberg, Walter Tenório Aoki, Marcelo Saldanha Corrêa, Umberto Cesar Moreira, Alexandre
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The Markov chain analysis showed that previous technical and tactical actions made from rucks had the highest probability of generating a transition phase leading to a CI.Winning teams may adopt a more flexible approach to the environmental changes that occur throughout a game.Higher variability in technical and tactical actions related to a previo...
Weber, Johannes Reinsberger, Claus Krutsch, Volker Seiffert, Robin Huber, Lorenz Alt, Volker Krutsch, Werner
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To provide detailed epidemiological data on situations with a propensity of head injuries due to heading in professional football. In a prospective cohort study including the four highest professional football leagues in Germany, headers carried out in 1244 official matches and critical situations (CI) with a potential risk for injuries over one se...
Mateus, Nuno Exel, Juliana Santos, Sara Gonçalves, Bruno Sampaio, Jaime
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Although youth soccer players meet and exceed the weekly physical activity (PA) guidelines also exhibit high off-training sedentary behaviour (SB) levels. Recent evidence indicated that low PA preceding training leads to decreased PA intensity in soccer practice and that SB impairs sports performance and recovery. Thus, a parallel group randomized ...
Jiménez, Sergio L Mateus, Nuno Weldon, Anthony Bustamante-Sánchez, Álvaro Kelly, Adam L Sampaio, Jaime
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This study aimed to examine the most demanding passages of play in elite youth soccer for congested and non-congested fixture schedules. Seventeen elite youth male soccer players (18.2 ± 1.3 years old) participated in this study across 30 competitive matches. Assessed matches included congested (n = 12, three matches within eight consecutive days o...
Dobbin, Nick Thorpe, Cari Highton, Jamie Twist, Craig
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To examine the influence of individual and situational factors on the movement characteristics and internal responses of players to an international Touch tournament. Using 47 International Touch players (25 men and 22 women), the associations between the movement characteristics and internal responses with individual (sprint, glycolytic test, Yo-Y...
Murray-Smith, S Williams, S Whalan, M Peoples, G E Sampson, J A
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To describe the incidence, location, mechanism and burden of injury in community male adolescent rugby. A prospective cohort injury surveillance study using sports trainers to record 'any physical complaint' over three seasons (2018/2019/2021) in 979 U13-U17 community male rugby union players. One hundred and fifty-two time-loss injuries (27.6/1000...
Carter, Jennie L Lee, David J Ranchordas, Mayur K Cole, Matthew
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Nutritional intake is important for young football players; however, little is known about the factors that influence their nutritional adherence. The aim of this study was to investigate players', sports nutritionists',and coaches' perspectives of the barriers and enablers to adhering to nutritional recommendations within a professional football c...
Morganti, Gabriele Kelly, Adam L Apollaro, Gennaro Pantanella, Laura Esposito, Mario Grossi, Alberto Ruscello, Bruno
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Relative Age Effects (RAEs) appear largely throughout youth soccer. However, little is known about how RAEs at youth levels can impact transition at senior levels. Accordingly, this study aimed to: (a) provide further test of RAEs by exploring the birth quarter (BQ) distribution of 2,030 Italian players born from 1975 to 2001 who have played in any...
Taberner, Matt Allen, Tom O'Keefe, Jason Richter, Chris Cohen, Daniel Harper, Damian Buchheit, Martin
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The purpose of this study was to assess the agreement between match-derived running load outputs; total distance (TD), high-speed running (HSR) and sprint distance (SPR) obtained by two optical tracking systems. Data were collected from 31 elite footballers from the first team and under-21 squads of an English Premier League (EPL) football club acr...
