BACKGROUND Flag (touch or intramural) football is a popular sport among the U.S. Air Force (USAF) active duty population and causes a substantial number of lost-workday injuries. The purpose of this study is to describe the mechanisms of flag-football injuries to better identify effective countermeasures. METHODS The data were derived from safety reports obtained from the USAF Ground Safety A...

BACKGROUND Football (soccer) is one of the most popular sports in the world, including Europe. It is associated with important betting activities. A common belief, widely spread among those who participate in gambling activities, is that knowledge and expertise on football lead to better prediction skills for match outcomes. If unfounded, however, this belief should be considered as a form of "...

The objective of this research is to provide a statistical measurement to predict the likely winners of international football tournaments with particular reference to the Euro 2008 football tournament. This research argues that there exists a positive relationship between the competitive balance and success in international football tournaments. The level of the competitive balance in a domest...

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...

Background. Following the successful outcomes of the national team, that finished third in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and the positive club performance in the UEFA competitions at the beginning of the new millennium, Turkish football was expected to reaffirm and further develop in the following years, exploiting also the favorable economic conditions. However, its growth and evolution did not mee...

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...

OBJECTIVE In Football the ability to repeat bouts of high intensity exercise over prolonged period of time is considered to be an important component of performance (Barbero Álvarez et al., 2004). Recently a match-analysis derived test (Football Intermittent Endurance Test, FIET) has been introduced to assess specific-endurance in Football (Barbero Álvarez et al., 2005). However no research has...

Studies report that football players have high blood pressure (BP) and increased cardiovascular risk. There are over 70,000 NCAA football players and 450 Division III schools sponsor football programs, yet limited research exists on vascular health of athletes. This study aimed to compare vascular and cardiovascular health measures between football players and nonathlete controls. Twenty-three ...

Physique and body composition characteristics of athletes determine the success in particular sports events in various ways. The knowledge of these characteristics is necessary to establish their importance for the success in competitive sport. This study evaluates physique and body composition variables of Indian university level football players. The measurements were performed on 204 univers...