Comparison of Match Load and Wellness between Friendly and World Cup Matches in Elite Female Soccer Players

(1) Objetive: Compare the internal load (ILO), external (ELO) and wellness (WS) between official preparation friendly matches (FM) France 2019 women world cup (WWC) in female soccer players. (2) Methods: Ten field players of Chilean national football team (age 27 ± 3.4 years, height 162.8 4.32 cm, weight 60.5 4.6 kg, fat percentage 24.7 1.62% muscle 49.2 1.63%) participated study. Participants were compared across three FM before group stages WWC June 2019. Both, ELO ILO recorded using GPS (Catapult Sports®, 10 Hz) rating perceived exertion (RPE), respectively. In addition, was analyzed via personal questionnaire at 24 48 h after match. The intra subject difference with a Student’s t-test for related samples. (3) Results: Moderate differences observed total relative distance covered [TD TDr, respectively] (p = 0.025, ES −0.74 p 0.017, −0.6). non-significant 0.088; −0.43) larger high-intensity (HSR) also found WWC. Likewise, greater RPE 0.001; −1.50) when to FM. Finally, significantly better scores shown stress ST24h, fatigue FT48h, pain MS48h 0.038; 0.72, 0.066; 0.71; 0.63; 0.77) matches. (4) Conclusion: It concluded that matches, whereas WS Moreover, measures (i.e., TD, HSR TDr) WWC, which could be least part, reason behind values reported questionnaires