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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Football (soccer)"”.
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Concussion Knowledge and Attitudes in English Football (Soccer)
<p>While concussions are prevalent in soccer, outside the US there has been limited investigation into soccer players' knowledge and attitudes regarding concussions. The purpose of the study was to access English soccer player' concussion knowledge and attitudes. This study used a cross sectional …
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Fútbol, Politics, and Corruption
This thesis explores how football (soccer) is used as a tool to promote corruption within political and economic institutions in Latin America and Europe. By drawing on international political and economic policies and analyzing work that theorizes how neoliberalism is not only an outside force …
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Just be There! Athlete Motivation and Parental Support: A Phenomenological Study
… sport and motivation levels. Sports included football (soccer), track and field, cheerleading, and triathlons. Themes that emerged from the data analysis included, presence, self and bodily concerns, mindset and time, each theme had a series of sub-themes. The study also used Eccles’ …
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Quantification of eccentric load using accelerometer imbedded in GPS
… BL and EI over four training sessions of football (soccer) together with changes in maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) strength of the knee extensors and muscle soreness of the thigh muscles before and after each training session (Study 2). In Study 1, 11 university students performed a …
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"Oh, When the Wiz": An Ethnography of Communal Music-Making in Kansas City Soccer Culture
… why and how that music-making works? Association football (soccer) fans around the world chant together as a means of establishing a game day atmosphere as well as to proclaim their collective identity as members of an exclusive group. Aiming to explore this relationship between communal …
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Training load and technical performance
… and technical performance within the sport of football. A systematic review of current literature highlighted the common game-related statistics analysed in football (soccer) and the training load indicators collected alongside them. The review also identified the most relevant game-related …
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On Self Organising Cyberdynamic Policy
… has come from an unconventional source i.e. football (soccer) teams. The unique opportunity identified was to use the vast amounts of football player spatial data, as captured by match scanning technology, to obtain simultaneously the multi-recursive policy characteristics of a real viable …
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Best medical care practices in sport: investigating the barriers to the implementation in the developing countries. Uganda as a case study
… athletes (n=75) from four sports in Uganda (football/soccer, athletics, basketball and rugby) to describe the medical care practices of the sports resource providers. The current prevention, emergency care, intermediate treatment, rehabilitation services and return-to-sports strategies were …
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The application of prophylactic knee bracing in relation to selected proprioceptive and fitness and skill parameters in first league South African rugby players
… to different research fields/subjects (American football, soccer and baseball) and methodologies, results are not always applicable to rugby union. The primary focus of the present study was to evaluate selected parameters important in modem rugby, and the effect of prophylactic knee bracing on …
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Soccer : physical characteristics, physical demands of match-play and effective physical conditioning
… examine the physical aspects of high performance soccer. As such, four interrelated studies were designed to pursue this purpose. Each study was designed to overcome certain distinct methodological limitations of previous science and football (soccer) research and build upon existing research. The …
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HAMSTRING INJURIES IN FOOTBALL: A COMPLEX SYSTEMS APPROACH THROUGH VIDEO ANALYSIS
… remain the most frequent muscle injuries in football and continue to impose a substantial burden on player availability, performance, and club management. Despite the large body of literature on hamstring injury risk factors, recurrence, and rehabilitation, their incidence is still rising, …
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An Australian perspective on talent identification and development in soccer
Association football (soccer) is one of the most popular sports discussed in talent identification and development research. However, discrepancies exist in how researchers, coaches, and sporting professionals (i.e. scouts, recruiters, and skill acquisition specialists) define optimal practice. …
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A social history of sport in Cork, Tipperary and Waterford, c. 1880-1930
… thesis considers the development of rugby and soccer in comparative perspective across these three counties, asking what local factors impacted on their uneven development in the region and considering the extent to which the traditional model of diffusion applies to the reception of these …
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Can psychological attributes predict the playing level of Icelandic footballers four to five years later?
… in 2024 playing levels among Icelandic youth footballers assessed in 2020/21, (ii) whether psychological skills (PS), mental toughness (MT), and competition anxiety (CA) differed across playing levels, (iii) how gender and playing levels interacted with PS, MT, and CA scores, and (iv) whether …
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Effects of high-intensity position-specific drills on physical and technical-skill performance in young soccer players
Soccer is the most widely played sport in the world, and physical preparation for soccer players has been extensively researched over the years. As the average intensity of a soccer match is close to 80-90% of maximal heart rate (HRmax), it is necessary to train at or above this intensity. Thus, …
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Lower Limb Fatigue Asymmetry of Preferred and Non-Preferred Legs after a Repeated-Sprint Test in Football Players with Previous Hamstring Injury
Football is the most widely played sport in the world and is thus associated with the highest total number of injuries of all sports. 12% of all football injuries are to the hamstrings, as this muscle group is subjected to constant stress during training and match play performance (Ekstrand, …
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An International Comparative History of Youth Football in France and the United States (C.1920-C.2000): The Age Paradigm and the Demarcation of the Youth Game as a Separate Sector of the Sport
… that the contemporary phenomenon of youth football is the fruit of a variety of historical developments over the twentieth century. The manner in which the junior game evolved as an independent subset of the sport in France and America was certainly exemplary of the idiosyncrasies of …
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A profile of game style, physical, technical and tactical skills, and the pathways that underpin expertise in Australian youth soccer players
… develop expertise and nurture talent in sport. Soccer is a multifaceted sport which requires a number of physical, technical and tactical skills to be successful, making it difficult to achieve expertise. Although Australia’s performance on the international stage is improving, there is a lack …