In England, there is a growing interest in futsal, driven by people who enjoy participating in the sport and others who see futsal as a development tool for those looking to succeed in football dubbed the countries national sport. Nationally, the development of the sport has been overseen by futsal's governing body, The Football Association (FA), to improve the fortunes of the national futsal t...

understanding results and consequences of social responsibility implementation has a significant effect on the attitude of football clubs. the main aim of this study was to identify social responsibility consequences of iran professional football clubs. the statistical sample consisted of 19 qualitative interviews with experts, administrators and faculty members who were selected through theore...

BACKGROUND There has been increased interest in the number of concussions occurring in college football over the past year. In April 2010, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) published new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of concussions in student athletes. PURPOSE To determine the number of concussions that occurred on 3 collegiate Division I military academy footba...

LETTERS Football blades: a cause for concern Sporting injuries have always contributed a significant proportion of the workload of the emergency department. 1 The number is increasing considerably 2 for several reasons. A burgeoning range of sporting activities combined with increased disposable income and leisure time has led to greater participation. 2 Consequently research and development ai...

Instructing intelligent agents in team-based, multi-agent environments to respond to dynamic events is a lengthy and expensive undertaking. In this paper, we present a framework for modeling the decisions and behaviors of ball carriers in American Football using the Axis Football Simulator. While offensive strategies in football employ the use of prescribed plays with specific spatio-temporal g...

Over the past 10 years, researchers have studied the effects of recreational football training as a health-promoting activity for participants across the lifespan. This has important public health implications as over 400 million people play football annually. Results from the first randomised controlled trial, published in the BJSM in January 2009, showed that football increased maximal oxygen...

Performance analysis contribution to game understanding is a widely accepted premise among the broad community of team ball sports, including football. In the literature it is possible to find a considerable amount of crosssectional studies addressing performance evaluations over time. However, longitudinal studies aiming to evaluate the performance of the same participants (individual or teams...

the aim of this study was to investigate the stability of various factors influencing iran football premier league teams (manager, coach, players) and their role in their team success. the method was descriptive-correlation and the statistical population consisted of all team of iran football premier league from the 1st to the 11th round. for data collection, which included names and numbers of...