Can we be satisfied with our football team? Evidence from spanish professional football. [PDF]
This paper assesses the sporting performance of Spanish professional football teams at competition level, namely, League, King’s Cup and European competitions (Champions League and UEFA Cup). Then, the gap between the result obtained by a team in a given
Andrés J. Picazo Tadeo +1 more
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Football in the community schemes: Exploring the effectiveness of an intervention in promoting healthful behaviour change [PDF]
, 2013 This study aims to examine the effectiveness of a Premier League football club’s Football in the Community (FitC) schemes intervention in promoting positive healthful behaviour change in children.
Drust, B +11 more
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Isokinetic assessment of the female’s soccer player’s knee. A systematic review of outcomes measures
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and ResearchBackground Isokinetic normative data in females’ soccer players is scarce in comparison to males. Furthermore, evaluation protocols employed to obtain those data in female’s studies, strongly differ from each other, using different ranges of speeds and ...
Antonio Cicchella, Cheng Zhang
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The Impact of Mental Fatigue on the Accuracy of Penalty Kicks in College Soccer Players
SportsPurpose: To investigate the impact of mental fatigue on the shooting accuracy and movement timing in the instep kick of Asian high-level soccer players.
Qingguang Liu +5 more
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Laterality Influences Agility Performance in Elite Soccer Players
Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 Introduction: Laterality (i.e., handedness, footedness, and eyedness) could have an impact on highly repeated soccer movements and thus, could influence performance.
Hassane Zouhal +12 more
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A body and a dream at a vital conjuncture: Ghanaian youth, uncertainty and the allure of football [PDF]
, 2013 This article investigates the rationale leading growing numbers of West African males to pursue a career in professional football, by taking the particular case of male youth in Accra and exploring how and why they are drawn into the football industry ...
James Esson (1251066) +2 more
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, 2015 Football has undergone a period of transformation over the last thirty years. Despite these global processes, different national leagues have adapted in different ways. After an initial period of success directly after Italia ’90, Italian football has gone through a period of sustained crisis. It has been blighted by financial mismanagement, corruption
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Neurotrauma ReportsRetrospective evaluations of repeated head injury are needed to better understand associations between head injury exposure and later-life deleterious outcomes.
Niki A. Konstantinides +7 more
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Forecasting the Professional Team Sporting Events: Evidence from Euro 2000 and 2004 Football Tournaments [PDF]
This study aims at predicting the most likely winners of international football tournaments. To this end, this paper employs a relatively simple statistical method, which is based on the seasonal coefficients of variation (CVs) of the end-of-season ...
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THE DEGREE OF COMPETITION IN THE EUROPEAN FOOTBALL LEAGUES: A STATISTICAL APPROACH [PDF]
As a professional sport, professional football teams in a league compete in imperfect market conditions since every team in a professional football league may be known by their differentiated product (i.e. the quality of football they play).
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