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Patellofemoral Pain, Q-Angle, and Performance in Female Chinese Collegiate Soccer Players

Medicina, 2023
Background and objective: Female sports injuries have been neglected by science, and few relevant studies have considered female subjects. Knee pain in female soccer players is more common than in male soccer players.
Songhui You, Yinhao Shen, Qingguang Liu, Antonio Cicchella   +3 more
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Navigating uncertainty: The interplay of ‘magical football’ and ‘football magic’ in Cameroonian football

Anthropology Today, 2023
Cameroon's Indomitable Lions (a nickname for the Cameroon national football team) are renowned for their ‘magical football’, a term that embodies their extraordinary performances. This article delves into the intertwining concepts of ‘magical football’ and ‘football magic’, seeking to understand how these elements contribute to the Lions’ success.
Kiyoshi Umeya, Hassan M. Yosimbom
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Training in women soccer players: A systematic review on training load monitoring

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
ObjectiveThe present systematic review aimed to provide an overview of training load (TL), along with their responses, monitoring during training sessions in highly trained and elite adult women soccer players.Data sourceElectronic databases searches ...
Júlio A. Costa, Vincenzo Rago, Pedro Brito, Pedro Figueiredo, Pedro Figueiredo, Pedro Figueiredo, Ana Sousa, Eduardo Abade, Eduardo Abade, João Brito   +9 more
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A school-based physical activity intervention in primary school: effects on physical activity, sleep, aerobic fitness, and motor competence

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveThe “Super Quinas” project evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention program to improve physical activity, aerobic fitness, sleep, and motor competence on children in primary school.MethodsThe experimental group (n = 19) enrolled in a 12 ...
Júlio A. Costa, Susana Vale, Susana Vale, Rita Cordovil, Rita Cordovil, Luís P. Rodrigues, Vasco Cardoso, Rui Proença, Manuel Costa, Carlos Neto, João Brito, José Guilherme, José Guilherme, André Seabra   +13 more
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Policy evolution in China’s campus football: a mixed-methods analysis of policy documents (2009–2025)

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Since 2009, the Chinese government has introduced a series of policies aimed at expanding youth football participation and addressing the shortage of talent reserves.
Yingwen Chen, Bihao Zhang, Xianming He, Kunfeng Li   +3 more
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Efeitos do Walking Football na saúde física de homens e mulheres acima de 50 anos

Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde
Objetivo: Este estudo investigou os efeitos da prática do Walking Football nas capacidades físicas e índice de massa corporal de pessoas com mais de 50 anos, considerando possíveis influências do gênero e da idade dos participantes.
Júlia Barreira, Maria Eduarda Saia, Ana Beatriz Chaves Vasconcelos Batista, Demerval Souza, Daniel Castro, Ademir Aparecido da Cunha, João Pedro Santos de Oliveira, Ricardo Leme   +7 more
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Football and doping: study of African amateur footballers [PDF]

British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2003
Objective:To investigate use and awareness of lawful and unlawful substances by amateur footballers in Yaounde, Cameroon.Methods:A total of 1116 amateur footballers (1037 male and 79 female) out of 1500 contacted participated in this study. They were divided into three groups: elite players (n = 314); local players (n = 723); female players (n = 79 ...
P F M, Ama, B, Betnga, V J, Ama Moor, J P, Kamga   +3 more
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Associations Between Football-Related Exposures, Head Injury, Tinnitus, and Neuropsychological Health Outcomes Among Professional American-Style Football Players

Sports Medicine - Open
Objectives Auditory dysfunction such as tinnitus is a common sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and has been associated with neurobehavioral outcomes, including cognitive decline, depression, and anxiety.
Niki A. Konstantinides, Michael Leung, Rachel Grashow, Jo Ann Pugh, Elizabeth Nolan, Alicia J. Whittington, Frank E. Speizer, Herman A. Taylor, Aaron L. Baggish, Ross D. Zafonte, Marc G. Weisskopf   +10 more
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Modern ‘live’ football: moving from the panoptican gaze to the performative, virtual and carnivalesque [PDF]

, 2012
Drawing on Redhead's discussion of Baudrillard as a theorist of hyperreality, the paper considers the different ways in which the mediatized ‘live’ football spectacle is often modelled on the ‘live’ however eventually usurps the ‘live’ forms position in ...
Mark Turner, Turner, Mark
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Unilateral Flywheel Training Enhances Eccentric Braking Capacity, Change-of-Direction Performance, and Match Acceleration–Deceleration in Soccer Players

Applied Sciences
Objectives: This study examined whether 8 weeks of unilateral flywheel resistance training (FRT) enhances eccentric neuromuscular characteristics and change-of-direction (COD) performance in male soccer players, and whether these adaptations transfer to ...
Yue Dou, Wei Zhang, Hengquan Xu, Xinping Lyu, Yaqing Wang, Jiyao Zhang, Jiarong Lv, Yaotong Li, Yujie Hu, Bo Zhang, Dingmeng Ren   +10 more
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