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Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment: Comment [PDF]

, 2010
Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second.
Kocher, Martin G., Lenz, Marc V., Sutter, Matthias   +2 more
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Hot and hypoxic environments inhibit simulated soccer performance and exacerbate performance decrements when combined. [PDF]

, 2016
The effects of heat and/or hypoxia have been well-documented in match-play data. However, large match-to-match variation for key physical performance measures makes environmental inferences difficult to ascertain from soccer match-play.
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Creativity and its link to epilepsy

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Creative thinking represents one of our highest‐order cognitive processes, involving multiple cortical structures and an intricate interplay between several cortical and subcortical networks. It results in novel ideas that translate to useful products or concepts. The evolutionary purpose of creativity is therefore apparent, as it advances our
Itay Tokatly Latzer, Phillip L. Pearl
wiley   +1 more source

Hip adduction and abduction isometric force production in young football players: reliability of different testing protocols

Scientific Reports
We examined the reliability of five hip adduction and abduction isometric strength testing protocols in young football (soccer) players. Maximal hip adduction and abduction isometric strength was measured in 20 Academy professional male football players ...
Vincenzo Rago, José M. Oliva-Lozano, Rick Cost, Javier Arnaiz-Lastras, Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, Pedro Figueiredo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soccer Event Detection [PDF]

Computer Science & Information Technology, 2018
The research community is interested in developing automatic systems for the detection of events in video. This is particularly important in the field of sports data analytics. This paper presents an approach for identifying major complex events in soccer videos, starting from object detection and spatial relations between objects.
Khan, Abdullah, Lazzerini, Beatrice, Calabrese, Gaetano, Serafini, Luciano   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Impacts of Social Assistance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Poor Remote Communities

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing social assistance to poor populations in remote communities in times of crises, such as pandemics, is challenging but crucial. This paper examines how food assistance during the COVID‐19 pandemic affected people's behaviour, using our surveys among over 400 rural communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. Food assistance
Yoshito Takasaki, Oliver T. Coomes, Christian Abizaid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship Between Soccer-Specific Skills and Skill-Related Fitness in Adolescent Soccer Players

Türk Spor ve Egzersiz Dergisi, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between soccer-specific skills and skill-related fitness in adolescent football players. Thirty male soccer players (age: 15.86 ± 0.69 years; football experience 7.10 ± 1.70 years) were recruited ...
Umut Canlı, Süleyman Viran, Cem Kurt
doaj  

Descriptive-comparative study of aerobic performance parameters between soccer and futsal athletes.

Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, 2011
Although soccer and futsal are sports with similar motor actions, the differences in size and match dynamics result in distinct physiological requirements.
Bruno Manfredini Baroni, William Couto, Ernesto Cesar Pinto Leal Junior   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microfracture for full‐thickness chondral lesions of the knee in elite athletes leads to high return‐to‐play rates

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Injuries to the knee are common in elite athletes and often involve damage to the articular cartilage. Given the high demands of elite sport, full‐thickness articular cartilage defects in the knee can be career‐limiting or threatening.
David J. Haslhofer, Jobe Shatrov, Mary Jones, Wahid Abdul, Arman Motesharei, Simon V. Ball, Andy Williams   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source