The prevalence of injuries in professional Turkish soccer players

Injuries in women's professional soccer.

OBJECTIVE The injury data from the first two seasons of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) were analysed to determine the injury incidence, anatomic location of injuries, and relation of player position. METHODS Injury data on 202 players from eight teams during the first two seasons of the WUSA were prospectively collected and analysed. RESULTS A total of 173 injuries occurred in...

Predicting the Potential of Professional Soccer Players

Projecting how a player’s skill level will evolve in the future is a crucial problem faced by sports teams. Traditionally, player projections have been evaluated by human scouts, who are subjective and may suffer from biases. More recently, there has been interest in automated projection systems such as the PECOTA system for baseball and the CARMELO system for basketball. In this paper, we pres...

Home advantage in Turkish professional soccer.

Home advantage is known to play an important role in the outcome of professional soccer games and to vary considerably worldwide. In the Turkish Super League over the last 12 years, 61.5% of the total points gained have been won by the home team, a figure similar to the worldwide average and to the Premier League in England. It is lower (57.7%) for games played between teams from Istanbul and e...

Muscle Injuries in Professional Soccer Players During the Month of Ramadan

Quadriceps assessment in professional soccer players.

Clinical examination of the knee involves eliciting certain signs that may indicate the presence of knee pathology. One such is quadriceps wasting. This occurs most commonly as the result of disuse or from a painful or unstable lesion of the knee. Comparing the circumference of the thighs at a set level above the patella is the standard method of testing for atrophy. 1 2 This, however, assumes ...