The Irish Football Player Pathway: Examining Stakeholder Coherence Throughout and Across the Player Development System by Liam Sweeney, Áine MacNamara, Dan Horan

“…Maximizing the efficiency of the player development system is a strategic priority for any professional football club or association. However, the successful development of a young footballer is largely dependent upon the roles and relationships of the different stakeholders invested in the developmental process. …”
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Comparing the Effect of Eight Weeks Selected Football Practice and Corrective Movements on Abnormalities and Body Composition in Students by Teimour Darzabi, Hossein Nabavinik, Mohamad Mahdi Saberi Najafi, Yousef Ghafari Noghondar, Reza Hemati Ostad, Javad Faraz Farouji, Alireza Zal Siahdasht, Keyvan Hejazi

“…Overweight in the children is also associated with musculoskeletal deformities. The current study aimed to compare the effect of conducting an 8-week of selected football activities and corrective exercises on postural deformities, the factors of physical readiness, and body composition in three male groups, including children, teenagers, and youth. …”
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Video analysis of Achilles tendon rupture in male professional football (soccer) players: injury mechanisms, patterns and biomechanics by Matthew Buckthorpe, Alberto Grassi, Stefano Zaffagnini, Francesco Della Villa, Fillippo Tosarelli, Matteo Zago

“…Background Achilles tendon rupture (ATR), while rare in football, is a severe career-threatening injury associated with long-layoff times. …”
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Predictive Modeling of Injury Risk Based on Body Composition and Selected Physical Fitness Tests for Elite Football Players by Francisco Martins, Krzysztof Przednowek, Cíntia França, Helder Lopes, Marcelo de Maio Nascimento, Hugo Sarmento, Adilson Marques, Andreas Ihle, Ricardo Henriques, Élvio Rúbio Gouveia

“…Injuries are one of the most significant issues for elite football players. Consequently, elite football clubs have been consistently interested in having practical, interpretable, and usable models as decision-making support for technical staff. …”
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Relative age effect and age of peak performance: an analysis of women's football players in the Olympic games (1996-2016) by Júlia Barreira, Bruno Bueno, João Guilherme Cren Chiminazzo

“…All data used in this study were obtained from the official website of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (www.fifa.com). The sample size of the study comprised 1,203 players. …”
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Anthropometric Profile and Physical Fitness Performance Comparison by Game Position in the Chile Women’s Senior National Football Team by Rodrigo Villaseca-Vicuña, Edgardo Molina-Sotomayor, Santiago Zabaloy, Jose Antonio Gonzalez-Jurado

“…The aim of this study was to explore the anthropometric profile and evaluate physical fitness variables of the members of the Chile women’s national football team based on their playing positions. Fifty football players participated in this study, which was carried out during the period of training for the France 2019 Women’s World Cup and the Japan 2020 Olympic Games. …”
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Anthropometry, Body Composition, and Physical Fitness in Semi-Professional Soccer Players: Differences between Sexes and Playing Position by Víctor Toro-Román, Francisco J. Grijota, Diego Muñoz, Marcos Maynar-Mariño, Sara Clemente-Gil, María C. Robles-Gil

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Relationship between the occurrence of cards, playing position and situational variables in starter and non-starter players in the Brazilian soccer first division championship by Gabriel Silveira Guedes da Maia, Paulo Vitor de Souza, Paulo Roberto Sandi, Guilherme Souza Pereira, Paulo Henrique Borges, Anderson Santiago Teixeira, Elisa Dell’Antonio, Juliano Fernandes da Silva

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Match Demands of Women’s Collegiate Soccer by Andrew R. Jagim, Jason Murphy, Alexis Q. Schaefer, Andrew T. Askow, Joel A. Luedke, Jacob L. Erickson, Margaret T. Jones

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Supplement Consumption by Elite Soccer Players: Differences by Competitive Level, Playing Position, and Sex by Jaime Sebastiá-Rico, José Miguel Martínez-Sanz, Jesús Sanchis-Chordà, Miguel Alonso-Calvar, Pedro López-Mateu, David Romero-García, Jose M. Soriano

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In-Season Match Demands Of Men’s Collegiate Soccer: A Comparison By Half, Position, Match Outcome, Match Location, And Competition Phase by Richard Aziz, Margaret T. Jones, Andrew R. Jagim, Mary Kate Feit, Nicholas Kuhlman Kuhlman, Thomas Crabhill, Jennifer B. Fields

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Validation of a New Soccer Shooting Test Based on Speed Radar Measurement and Shooting Accuracy by Felix Engler, Andreas Hohmann, Maximilian Siener

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Influence of Match Status on Players’ Prominence and Teams’ Network Properties During 2018 FIFA World Cup by Gibson Moreira Praça, Bernardo Barbosa Lima, Sarah da Glória Teles Bredt, Raphael Brito e Sousa, Filipe Manuel Clemente, Filipe Manuel Clemente, André Gustavo Pereira de Andrade

“…The analyses of players and teams’ behaviors during the FIFA World Cup may provide a better understanding on how football tactics and strategies have developed in the past few years in elite football. …”
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Research on Precision Education Management Strategies for College Students Based on the Background of Informatization Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Wang Hui, Fan Pengfei

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Wearable Devices and Digital Biomarkers for Optimizing Training Tolerances and Athlete Performance: A Case Study of a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Soccer T... by Dhruv R. Seshadri, Helina D. VanBibber, Maia P. Sethi, Ethan R. Harlow, James E. Voos

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AVALIAÇÃO DA PERDA HÍDRICA E DO GRAU DE CONHECIMENTO EM HIDRATAÇÃO DE ATLETAS DE FUTEBOL AMERICANO by Sara Ilda Fantinel Pinto, Valéria Stupka Berdacki, Simone Biesek

“…Were performed the U of Mann-Whitney (p<0,05) and multiple linear regression Forward (p<0,10) tests. Results: through linear regression test, was discovered a direct association between the degree of knowledge and weight loss. …”
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Characterization of the defense-attack transition of a soccer team by Pedro Malta, Bruno Travassos

“…<p class="ResumoAbstract"><span lang="EN-US">This study aimed to characterize the transition defense-attack in association football using the social networks analysis method. …”
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Nationality Discrimination in Community Law: An Assessment of UEFA Regulations Governing Player Eligibility for European Club Competitions (The Home-Grown Player Rule) by Tarik Sabry

“…Since Bosman, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has argued that although commercial football is no longer organised with reference to nationality and does not require nationality rules for the sake of maintaining such market divisions, other considerations should permit the imposition of rules that closely correlate with nationality. …”
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GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN ALL ITS DISCRETE FORMS: THE GAME, FIFA, AND THE THIRD WORLD by Basil Ugochukwu

“…This paper uses the governance praxis of the Federation of International Football Associations [FIFA] to illustrate the impact of several intensive, discrete, and rarely-studied global governance actors whose internal processes and procedures mirror the core concerns of Third World Approaches to International Law [TWAIL] scholars regarding the legitimation of a hegemonic category and the marginalization of Third World and subaltern interests. …”
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Technical and tactical performance indicators discriminating winning and losing team in elite Asian beach soccer tournament. by Rabiu Muazu Musa, Anwar P P Abdul Majeed, Mohamad Razali Abdullah, Ahmad Fakhri Ab Nasir, Mohd Hasnun Arif Hassan, Mohd Azraai Mohd Razman

“…The standard backward, forward and stepwise discriminates the WT and the LT with an excellent accuracy of 95.65%, 91.30% and 89.13%, respectively. …”
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