The aim of this study was to compare the effects of two different mixed training programs (optimum power load [OPL] + resisted sprints [RS] and OPL + vertical/horizontal plyometrics [PL]) on neuromuscular performance of elite soccer players during a short-term training preseason. Eighteen male professional soccer players took part in this study. The athletes were pair-matched in two training gr...

Performance analysis in sport is used to investigate the performance of teams and players across different sports. Research within this area, especially when focussing on the determinants of success, has grown rapidly in the last few years. During this time, the role of a new concept, 'situational variables' has emerged. This term includes the different game and situational conditions that may ...

Currently, there are still few studies on the tactical and contextual criteria that determine offensive success in women’s soccer. The objectives of this study were to discover show an association with elite soccer establish a multivariate predictive model for phase. For this, 2323 ball possessions analyzed FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 via direct observation. In addition, eight semi-structured i...

BACKGROUND Knee injuries end many careers among female soccer players. The number of injuries can be anticipated to increase because of the increasing popularity of the sport worldwide and the higher incidence of knee injuries among young females compared with males. METHODS In a community-based intervention trial performed from February 1 through October 31, 2007, we sought to reduce the num...

BACKGROUND No previous research has analysed kinetic fatigue of elite adult players and elite youth players during the competitive period. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to analyse kinetic post-match fatigue in professional and youth soccer players during the competitive period. MATERIALS AND METHODS resting heart rate (HRrest), post-effort recovery heart rate (HRrecovery), rat...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between training load, recovery and monthly field test performance in young elite soccer players in order to develop training guidelines to enhance performance. In a prospective, nonexperimental cohort design, eighteen young elite soccer players registered training and match duration for a full competitive season by means of daily traini...

The objective of this paper and our current research is to develop a human-robot interaction architecture that will let human coaches train robots to play soccer via spoken language. This work exploits recent developments in cognitive science, particularly notions of grammatical constructions as formmeaning mappings in language, and notions of shared intentions as distributed plans for interact...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between training load, recovery, and monthly field test performance in young elite soccer players to develop training guidelines to enhance performance. In a prospective, nonexperimental cohort design, 18 young elite soccer players registered training and match duration for a full competitive season by means of daily training logs. Furth...

Abstract Adjusted plus-minus (APM) can sometimes lack common sense. This happens, for instance, when mediocre players move into the top ten, and superstars fall out of 100. These occasional outliers hurt credibility APM, mask benefits, such as increased prediction accuracy. We address this problem with a new method, called Augmented APM. APM incorporates external player ratings methodology. The...