OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of coach-led neuromuscular warm-up on reducing lower extremity (LE) injuries in female athletes in a mixed-ethnicity, predominantly low-income, urban population. DESIGN Cluster randomized controlled trial. SETTING Chicago public high schools. PARTICIPANTS Of 258 coaches invited to participate, 95 (36.8%) enrolled (1558 athletes). Ninety coaches and...

Background. Regardless of the age, elite athletes exhibit various motor capabilities (e.g., speed; endurance; strength) that are specific to that particular sport. Objectives. The purpose of this study was to compare different aspects of physical fitness (agility, strength, endurance) in thirty, 9 year old elite soccer and hockey players. Methods. Participants completed a 90 minute familiariz...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a psychological skills training program on the cohesion of a men's soccer team during a playing season. Thirty subjects were divided into an experimental group (first team) and a control group (reserve team). All subjects were measured on cohesiveness items before, in the middle, and after a seven-month psychological intervention program. ...

Constructing soccer robots is an attempt in development of AI researches, done by defining a standard problem and solving it by many researchers all over the world. In this field, every year a formal federation holds international competitions, called RoboCup [1]. The Simulation League is one of the branches of the RoboCup. We have designed and implemented an online coach for a soccer simulatio...

To examine the relationship between students’ athletic ability and their psychological skills in the athletic club and the school life setting, 99 players from high school soccer teams were administered with the Psychological Skills Inventory for Athletic Clubs and the Psychological Skills Inventory for School Life. Five coaches of the soccer teams evaluated the players’ athletic ability, using...

37 38 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anthropometric and performance characteristics 39 of high level youth female soccer players by annual-age category (U10-U16). Data were 40 collected from 157 female soccer players (U16; n=46, U14; n=43, U12; n=38, U10; n=30), 41 recruited from three high level female soccer academies in England. Players completed 42 assessments of anthropometr...

This study presents the perceptions and practices of fundamental movement skills (FMS) in grassroots soccer coaches. One hundred twenty-eight coaches (123 males, 5 females) completed an online mixed-method survey comprising 32 questions relating to: participant demographics, education, qualifications; FMS perceptions, practices, assessments, importance constructs; other factors related to FMS. ...

Since an awareness of key task constraints can be extremely beneficial for coaches, the lack of scientific background about the effects of altered game rules/conditions on individual or team performances during soccer practice is surprising. The aim of the present study was to analyze the influence of different small-sided game (SSG) playing rules (“free-form”, “two touches” and “four passes to...

Goalkeeper (GK) is an expert in soccer and goalkeeping is a complete professional job. In fact, achieving success seems impossible without a reliable GK. His effect in successes and failures is more dominant than other players. The most visible mistakes in a game are those of goalkeeper's. In this paper the expert fuzzy system is used as a suitable tool to study the quality of a goalkeeper and ...