In 2014, Brazil hosted one of the most popular sport competitions in the world, the FIFA World Cup. Concerned about the intense migration of tourists, the Brazilian government decided to deploy a food safety strategy based on inspection scores and a grading system applied to food services. The present study aimed to evaluate the results of the food safety strategy deployed during the 2014 FIFA ...

Praca stanowi glosę krytyczną do wyroku Trybunału Arbitrażowego ds. Sportu w Lozannie z dnia 24 kwietnia 2015 sprawie 2014/A/3793. Postępowanie to zostało zainicjowane przez złożenie FC Barcelona odwołania od decyzji wydanej Komitet Odwoławczy FIFA. W tej organy dyscyplinarne FIFA nałożyły na karę za naruszenie postanowień Regulaminu ws. Statusu i Transferu Zawodników przy transferach niepełnol...

Football is one of the most popular and exciting sports fields throughout the world. Today, in addition to the result, the number of goals and points, attraction and quality of the played matches are important for club management staff, coaching staff, the players and especially the fans. Beside number of goals, there are different criteria such as successful passes, attacks, defenses, tackles ...

Soccer is considered the most popular sport in world, because there are approximately 265 million people practicing regularly a professional, semiprofessional or amateur fashion. According to International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) [1] 2007 were more than 1.7 teams and 301 thousand clubs around representing 4% world population currently included both social cultural aspects.

BACKGROUND The incidence and characteristics of football injuries during matches in top-level international tournaments are well documented, but training injuries and illnesses during this period have rarely been studied. AIM To analyse the incidence and characteristics of injuries and illnesses incurred during the 2010 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. MET...

BACKGROUND It remains unknown whether and when the hosting of mega-sport events increases quality of life of host city residents. The aim of this study is to assess the changes in quality of life of host city residents over the course of hosting a mega-sport event until three months after the event, depending on residents' perception of the atmosphere during the event. METHODS The study was c...

The mechanisms of auditory feature processing and conjunction were examined with event-related brain potential (ERP) recording in a task in which participants responded to target tones defined by the combination of location, frequency, and duration features amid distractor tones varying randomly along all feature dimensions. Attention effects were isolated as negative difference (Nd) waves by s...

BACKGROUND A protective effect on injury risk in youth sports through neuromuscular warm-up training routines has consistently been demonstrated. However, there is a paucity of information regarding the quantity and quality of coach-led injury prevention programmes and its impact on the physical performance of players. OBJECTIVE The aim of this cluster-randomised controlled trial was to asses...

BACKGROUND Injury prevention programme delivery on adherence and injury risk, specifically involving regular supervisions with coaches and players on programme execution on field, has not been examined. AIM The objective of this cluster-randomised study was to evaluate different delivery methods of an effective injury prevention programme (FIFA 11+) on adherence and injury risk among female y...

How to select participants for a sports tournament when they are divided into different sets, and one should find fair number of slots each set? We propose address this question by resorting standard tools from the allocation literature. To frame our discussion, we focus on increase in participating teams FIFA World Cup. explore additional among continental confederations. consider 10 allocatio...