The aim of this study was to investigate the injury incidence and injury characteristics of a Spanish sub-elite professional football team during four consecutive seasons. A team was followed prospectively from the season 2003-2004 to 2006-2007 and individual player exposure and time loss injuries were recorded during all club training sessions and matches. A total of 313 time-loss injuries wer...

Red and Blue Teaming is a competitive training simulation between two teams; a Red Team and a Blue Team. The Red Team is the attacking team also known as the bad guys, and the Blue Team is the defending team known as the good guys. The goal of the Red Team is to infiltrate an infrastructure, stay undetected and steal data. Whereas the Blue Team’s goal is to secure this infrastructure by prevent...

Recent results in experimental and personnel economics indicate that women do not like competitive environments as much as men. This article presents an experimental design which gives participants the opportunity to enter a tournament as part of a team rather than alone. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no gend...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between physical fitness and team success in soccer, and to test for differences in physical fitness between different player positions. METHODS Participants were 306 male soccer players from 17 teams in the two highest divisions in Iceland. Just before the start of the 1999 soccer season, the following variables were tested: height and weight, body com...

Several studies have examined the provision of medical care in a variety competitive sport settings. These are important contributions, but majority this work has focused on elite sports that tend to group health professionals as part team, with little attention given lack access such services. This dedicated support may result athletes being more likely engage ‘team-doctoring’ – term used desc...