purpose despite numerous studies which have been done regarding soccer injuries worldwide, there is lack of available data considering the epidemiology of injuries in the iranian soccer premier league, although it is the most popular sport in the country. the main goal of this research was to determine the incidence of physical injuries in the studied population, considering other characteristi...

OBJECTIVE There exists a need to better understand the biomechanical forces associated with head impacts in American football. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not differences in head accelerations existed between different player positions and different event types in collegiate football. We also sought to identify whether or not any associations existed between high-mag...

Clemente, M.F., Lourenço Martins, F.M., Sousa Mendes, R., & Figueiredo, A.J. (2014). A systemic overview of football game: The principles behind the game. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 9(2), pp.656-667. The football game is a specific system constituted by many players’ interactions. The specific nature of such sport must be properly analyzed and discussed in sport community in order to understand the ...

Professional association football is a game of talent. The success of a professional club hinges largely on its ability of assembling the best team. Building on a dataset of player transfer records among more than 400 clubs in 24 world-wide top class leagues from 2011 to 2015, this study aims to relate a club's success to its activities in the player transfer market from a network perspective. ...

We use a simple machine learning model, logistically-weighted regularized linear least squares regression, in order to predict baseball, basketball, football, and hockey games. We do so using only the thirty-year record of which visiting teams played which home teams, on what date, and what the final score was. No real ”statistics” are used. The method works best in basketball, likely because i...

The comparative study of aerobic power in different sports was conducted on 99 National Senior as well as National Junior players specialised in hockey and football, field games; volleyball and basketball, court games. The National Seniors were 27 hockey and 16 volleyball players, whereas, 32 football and 24 basketball players were the National Juniors. The maximal anaerobic power of the player...

Manuel Decker,1,2 Sven Burger,3,4 Stefan Linden,1,2 and Martin Wegener1,2 1Institut für Angewandte Physik and DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), Universität Karlsruhe (TH), D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 2Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 3Zuse Institute Berlin, Takustrasse 7, D-14195 Berlin, Germany 4DFG...

D.A. Bagrets1,2,∗, Y. Utsumi1,3, D. S. Golubev1,2,4, and Gerd Schön1,2,∗∗ 1 Institut für Theoretische Festköperphysik and DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 2 Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 3 Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the reasons behind players not participating in a sports safety research project. METHODS During the preseason, 10 Australian football clubs volunteered 23 teams to participate in a protective equipment randomised controlled trial, the Australian Football Injury Prevention Project (AFIPP). All players from these teams were invited to participate. Players who did not agr...

BACKGROUND Sport as a mechanism to build relationships across cultural boundaries and to build positive interactions among young people has often been promoted in the literature. However, robust evaluation of sport-for-development program impacts is limited. This study reports on an impact evaluation of a sport-for-development program in Australia, Football United(®). METHODS A quasi-experime...