PURPOSE Despite numerous studies which have been done regarding soccer injuries worldwide, there is lack of available data considering the epidemiology of injuries in the Iranian soccer premier league, although it is the most popular sport in the country. The main goal of this research was to determine the incidence of physical injuries in the studied population, considering other characteristi...

There are a number of sports played across the world under the name football, with most of the world reserving that name for association football or soccer. Soccer is discussed in Chapter 5 of this volume, this chapter considers American football, the basic structure of which is described in the next paragraph. Most of the material in this chapter is discussed in terms of the National Football ...

researchers use resiliency for people who do not show undesirable consequences in terrible and unsafe conditions. resiliency is often referred to constructive and positive compatibility in order to deal with problems. as athletes cannot cope with their defeats most of the time, they should study this issue and its interaction and acquisition. therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the...

In this paper, we examined the relationship of sports performance and revenue generation in the English Premier League (EPL) to understand how on field impacts financial professional football clubs. Further, verified if increased wage expenses help improve performance. Independent dynamic models were estimated by GMM panel data including N = 28 EPL teams a reduced set excluding top six teams...

The English Premier League is well-known for being not only one of the most popular professional sports leagues in world, but also toughest competitions to predict. first purpose this research was verify consistency between goal scoring and Poisson process; specifically, relationships number goals scored a match distribution, time throughout course season exponential location during football ga...

This article explores the footballing Twitter community and abundance of tweets that use discriminatory humour to ‘Other’ minorities. With a 32% increase in instances discrimination during 2018/19 Premier League season, this qualitative study collected containing some form language or slurs be analysed. Two main concepts were identified, Othering humour, where minorities was often concealed by ...