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Usage of analgesic and anti-inflammatory medicine by Egyptian male international footballers: what are the patterns and the perceptions towards sports pharmacy and medication use? [PDF]
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise MedicineBackground The use of analgesic and anti-inflammatory (AAI) medications is prevalent among athletes, particularly in contact sports like football. Understanding the perceptions and practices of AAI medication use is crucial for protecting athlete health ...
Osman Hassan Ahmed +3 more
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Physical Activity Levels of Adult Virtual Football Players
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Esports, including virtual football, are a worldwide phenomenon. Yet, little is known about the physical activity levels of individuals engaged in virtual football game play.
Evert Verhagen, Pedro Figueiredo
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Football and politics: the politics of football [PDF]
Managing Sport and Leisure, 2020 How often have we heard the old adage that sport and politics should not mix? Indeed, the New Year was only days old when the International Committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games warned that ath...
Martin J. Power +4 more
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Sensors, 2023 The Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) is a very popular exercise used to improve eccentric strength and prevent injuries. The aim of this investigation was to assess the reliability of a portable dynamometer that measures maximal strength (MS) and rate of ...
Júlio A. Costa +4 more
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Are Soccer and Futsal Affected by the Relative Age Effect? The Portuguese Football Association Case
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A better understanding of the relative age effect (RAE) in youth will increase the awareness of the need for reducing the bias of (de)selection.
Pedro Figueiredo +6 more
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Effects of dietary supplements on athletic performance in elite soccer players: a systematic review
Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 2023 Dietary supplements are widely used among athletes, and soccer players are no exception. Nevertheless, evidence supporting the use of dietary supplements aiming to enhance performance in soccer is somewhat contradictory, scarce, or even nonexistent. Thus,
Rodrigo Abreu +4 more
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Social Science Quarterly, 2016 ObjectivesThis article relies on data from two samples of 47 and 49 European countries from 1950 through 2011 and 1,980 and 1,960 football domestic leagues, respectively, to explore to what extent political regimes affect the competitive balance in domestic football (soccer) leagues.MethodsWe run OLS cross‐sectional regressions comparing democracies ...
Ignacio Lago +2 more
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An Improved Passing Network for Evaluating Football Team Performance
Applied Sciences, 2023 With the continuous development of sensor technology, the realization of football techniques and tactics comes with richer technical support. Among them, network analysis has been widely used to analyze passing behavior, and some results have been ...
Wenxuan Zhou +3 more
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Hidden Markov Model-Based Video Recognition for Sports
Advances in Mathematical Physics, 2021 In this paper, we conduct an in-depth study and analysis of sports video recognition by improved hidden Markov model. The feature module is a complex gesture recognition module based on hidden Markov model gesture features, which applies the hidden ...
Zhiyuan Wang +3 more
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Decentralization and Football* [PDF]
Social Science Quarterly, 2018 ObjectivesWe show that decentralization of economic and political power makes a substantial difference in football. Decentralization increases the competitive balance of domestic football leagues and creates an advantage for clubs from decentralized countries in international competitions.MethodsWe run pooled cross‐sectional time‐series analyses using ...
Lago Peñas, Ignacio +2 more
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