Influence of Playing Standard on Upper- and Lower-Body Strength, Power, and Velocity Characteristics of Elite Rugby League Players by John F. T. Fernandes, Matthew Daniels, Liam Myler, Craig Twist

“…Background: To compare load&#8211;velocity and load&#8211;power relationships among first grade (<i>n</i> = 26, age 22.9 &#177; 4.3 years), academy (<i>n</i> = 23, age 17.1 &#177; 1.0 years), and scholarship (<i>n</i> = 16, age 15.4 &#177; 0.5 years) Super League rugby league players. Methods: Participants completed assessments of maximal upper- and lower-body strength (1RM) and peak velocity and power at 20, 40, 60, and 80 kg during bench press and squat exercises, in a randomised order. …”
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Analysis of the relationship between change of direction ability, Speed and power in adolescence by Gürkan Diker, Raif Zileli, Hüseyin Özkamçı, Sadi Ön

“…Thirty-six male football players (average of age 12.55±0.50 years, standing height average 155.63±9.34 cm, body weight average 46.57±8.15, average of years of training 3.58±0.96) from U12 and U13 categories of a football team in Turkish Super League participated in this study. Normality of the data was analysed with the Shapiro-Wilk test and homogeneity of variance was analysed with the Levene test. …”
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Classified metabolic power-based measures in professional football players: comparison between playing positions and match period by Zeki Akyildiz, Erhan Çene, Coşkun Parim, Onat Çetin, Çağatay Turan, Yılmaz Yüksel, Rui Silva, Ana Filipa Silva, Hadi Nobari

“…Methods Forty-six professional male players from two Turkish Super League teams were observed during two seasons, and 58 matches were analyzed. …”
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Investigating the Relationship Between FMS Test Scores and the Occurrence of Injury in Elite Female Shooter by Abdolrasoul Daneshjoo, Baran Hoseini, Fatemeh Ghasemi

“…Methods: The statistical population of this quasi-experimental study was all elite athletes and super league shooters (guns & rifles) in Tehran in 1398. …”
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Quantification of Head Acceleration Events in Rugby League: An Instrumented Mouthguard and Video Analysis Pilot Study by James Tooby, Dan Weaving, Marwan Al-Dawoud, Gregory Tierney

“…Peak linear acceleration (PLA), peak angular acceleration (PAA) and peak change in angular velocity (ΔPAV) were collected using custom-fit iMG set with a 5 g single iMG-axis recording threshold. iMG were fitted to ten male Super League players for thirty-one player matches. Video analysis was conducted on HAE to identify the contact event; impacted player; tackle stage and head loading type. …”
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Role of psychological factors on the performance of elite soccer players by Pathmanathan K. Suppiah, Mohamad Razali Abdullah, Rabiu Muazu Musa, Ahmad Bisyri Husin Musawi B. Maliki, Norlaila Azura Kosni

“…We enrolled elite players competing in the Malaysian Super League with a mean age of ± 25 years. Psychological constructs questionnaire proposed by PSIS-R-5 was administered to the players, and the scores of each player were recorded. …”
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Goal or Miss? A Bernoulli Distribution for In-Game Outcome Prediction in Soccer by Wendi Yao, Yifan Wang, Mengyao Zhu, Yixin Cao, Dan Zeng

“…This two-stage approach effectively captures the dynamic situation after a goal and the uncertainty in the late phase of a game. Chinese Super League data have been used for algorithm training and evaluation, and the results demonstrate that IGSOP outperforms existing methods, especially in predicting draws and prediction during final moments of games. …”
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Victims of age restrictions in Turkish football: a study on the social consequences of the application by Mert Zelyurt, Muazzez Sasmaz Atacocugu

“…In the current situation, that the national team squad consists of the players who come from the youth setup of big teams in the super league rather than young players is an evidence of falling short of the goal that the third league creates a source for the national team by giving more space to young players by the quota rule. …”
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO VOLLEYBALL TEAMS IN SOME ANTHROPOMETERIC AND MOTOR ABILITIS by Bahri Gjinovci, Valon Nikqi, Florian Miftari

“…Introduction: In this research we are deal with two teams of the super league of Kosovo in volleyball. The goal of this study is to verify the differences between the two teams in volleyball in some anthropometric characteristics, basic motor skills and situational tests. …”
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Investigation of the relationship between isokinetic lower extremity strength and the vertical jump parameter in elite women football players by Mehmet Soyal, Ömer Aksoy, Onur Şengöl, Sefa Kılıç

“…The research group consisted of 26 volunteer professional female football players competing at the Turkish women's super league level. The maximum strength of the knee extensor and flexor muscles of female soccer players was measured using an isokinetic dynamometer device (Cybex NORM®, Humac, CA, USA) that allows the recording of instant isokinetic torque. …”
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The evaluation of playing styles integrating with contextual variables in professional soccer by Lingfeng Kong, Tianbo Zhang, Changjing Zhou, Miguel-Angel Gomez, Yue Hu, Shaoliang Zhang

“…PurposePlaying styles play a key role in winning soccer matches, but the technical and physical styles of play between home and away match considering team quality in the Chinese Soccer Super League (CSL) remain unclear. The aim of this study was to explore the technical and physical styles of play between home and away matches integrating with team quality in the CSL.Materials and methodsThe study sample consists of 480 performance records from 240 matches during the 2019 competitive season in the CSL. …”
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“I'm a Referee, Not a Female Referee”: The Experiences of Women Involved in Football as Coaches and Referees by Scarlett Drury, Annette Stride, Hayley Fitzgerald, Nia Hyett-Allen, Laura Pylypiuk, Jodie Whitford-Stark

“…The development of the Women's Super League (WSL) in English football, increased media coverage of the game, and an expansion of grassroots opportunities indicate a bright future for women and girls who want to play. …”
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Effect of public relations activities conducted in professional football clubs on fan satisfaction by Hakan Salim Caglayan, Celalettin Bayar

“…The research sample was composed of a total of 699 fans (nmale=535 and nfemale=164) including 200 Fenerbahçe fans (nmale=179 and nfemale=21), 100 Beşiktaş Fans (nmale=2 and nfemale=98), 201 Galatasaray Fans (nmale=178 and nfemale=23) and 198 Gençlerbirliği Fans (nmale=176 and nfemale=22), who were selected with random sampling method from football teams played in Super Toto Super League at Turkey Football Federation 2011-2012 Football Season. …”
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Reliability of Functional Performance and Neurocognitive Tests in Athletes with and without Functional Ankle Instability by Niloofar Mohammadi, Amir Hosein Kahlaee, Mahyar Salavati, Behnam Akhbari, Iraj Abdollahi

“…Methods: In this methodological study, 20 athletes with unilateral functional ankle instability (mean age [SD]: 23.40[2.58] y; mean height[SD]: 1.77[0.11] m; mean weight[SD]: 67.00[13.18] kg) and 20 uninjured athletes (mean age[SD]: 23.05[2.72] y; mean height: 1.77[0.13] m; mean weight: 66.35[12.21] kg) matched by sex, sports type and level, age, limb dominance, height, and weight were sampled by convenient method from Karaj volleyball and basketball super league members. Functional performance tests (FPTs) included the star excursion balance test (SEBT), figure-of-8, side, square, and single hop tests. …”
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Effect of small-sided games rule changes on time spent in different intensity zones, frequency of technical actions and distance covered during soccer training by Abdullah, Muhammad Taufiq Cheng

“…This study aims to examine physiological factors such as the amount of time spent in three intensity zones (low, moderate, high), frequency of technical actions, and distance covered during soccer training utilizing four separate small-sided games (SSGs: 5 vs. 5 plus two goal keepers) with different rule changes (free-touches, SSGFT; one-touch, SSG1T; two-touches, SSG2T; three-touches, SSG3T) in Malaysian Super League (MSL) soccer players. Twelve men’s soccer players, the first 11 starting players plus the reserve goal keeper (mean + SD: age, 24.3+4.0 years; height, 171.2+5.9 cm; weight, 61.9+7.4 kg) participated in the study. …”
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Collagen supplementation augments changes in patellar tendon properties in female soccer players by Joonsung Lee, Josh E. Bridge, David R. Clark, Claire E. Stewart, Robert M. Erskine, Robert M. Erskine

“…We investigated the effect of collagen hydrolysate supplementation on changes in patellar tendon (PT) properties after 10 weeks’ training in female soccer players from a Football Association Women’s Super League Under 21 s squad. We pair-matched n = 17 players (age: 17 ± 0.9 years; height: 1.66 ± 0.06 m; mass: 58.8 ± 8.1 kg) for baseline knee extension (KE) maximum isometric voluntary contraction (MIVC) torque, age, height, and body mass, and randomly assigned them to collagen (COL) or placebo (PLA) groups (COL n = 8, PLA n = 9). …”
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Coaching leadership style and personality trait among coaches-athlete Malaysian successful and less successful football teams / Abbylolita Sullah by Sullah, Abbylolita

“…A total of 16 coaches and 200 players of Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Premier League have completed Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS, 1980) and Graduate Employability Questionnaire (GEQ, 2009) which LSS consisted of Training and Instruction (TI), Democratic Behaviour (DB), Autocratic Behaviour (AB), Social Support (SS), Positive Feedback (PF) and GEQ consisted of Personal Attributes and Personal Qualities. …”
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Modeling the effects of vaccination, nucleic acid testing, and face mask wearing interventions against COVID-19 in large sports events by Zeting Liu, Huixuan Zhou, Huixuan Zhou, Ningxin Ding, Jihua Jia, Xinhua Su, Hong Ren, Xiao Hou, Xiao Hou, Wei Zhang, Chenzhe Liu

“…In this study, we employed the generalized SEIR model in conjunction with the Wells–Riley model to estimate the effects of vaccination, nucleic acid testing, and face mask wearing on audience infection control during the 2021 Chinese Football Association Super League from 20 April to 5 August. The generalized SEIR modeling showed that if the general population were vaccinated by inactive vaccines at an efficiency of 0.78, the total number of infectious people during this time period would decrease from 43,455 to 6,417. …”
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Dietary Intake of Soccer Players before, during and after an Official Game: Influence of Competition Level and Playing Position by Costas Chryssanthopoulos, Athanasios Souglis, Sofia Tsalouhidou, Andrew T. Hulton, Gregory C. Bogdanis, Anatoli Petridou, Anastassios Philippou, Maria Maridaki, Apostolos Theos

“…Diet was weighed and recorded by 123 SP for 3 days; before, on the day, and the day after an official match. SP in the Super League (SL, <i>n</i> = 33) division reported higher (<i>p</i> < 0.05) average three-day energy (195 ± 36 kJ/kg), carbohydrate (6.0 ± 1.1 g/kg), and protein (2.2 ± 0.5 g/kg) intakes compared to the intakes reported by SP in the 2nd (<i>n</i> = 30) (energy: 159 ± 31 kJ/kg; carbohydrate: 4.6 ± 1.2 g/kg; protein: 1.9 ± 0.4 g/kg), 3rd (<i>n</i> = 30) (energy: 153 ± 34 kJ/kg; carbohydrate: 4.5 ± 1.2 g/kg; protein: 1.7 ± 0.4 g/kg), and 4th (<i>n</i> = 30) (energy: 152 ± 36 kJ/kg; carbohydrate: 4.2 ± 1.2 g/kg; protein: 1.7 ± 0.5 g/kg) national leagues (mean ± SD). …”
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Ingesta dietética de hierro y su deficiencia en las jugadoras de voleibol femenino de élite Dietary iron intake and deficiency in elite women volleyball players by J. Mielgo-Ayuso, A. Urdampilleta, J. M. Martínez-Sanz, J. Seco

“…Objective: We analyzed the FS and IST of 10 JVF a team of Spanish SuperLeague (26.6 ± 5.9 years and height 178.05 ± 8.7 cm) in two moments of the season: Week 0 (pre-start of preseason) and week 11 (after 11 weeks of training and 6 games of the regular season). …”
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