Background. Sports injuries, in addition to the economic cost which they incur for football clubs, appear to be linked to a worse collective performance during the season. Objectives. The aim of this study was to determine the injury incidence in a professional football team during 4 consecutive seasons. Methods. A total of 109 football players aged about 25 ± 4 years, having experienc...

football medicine has developed in the world in recent years. afc medical committee, established the idea of football medicine travelling fellowship two years ago and provided high-level healthcare services to football players in asian countries. this is a report on my one month experience in a travelling fellowship program for football medicine which is attempting to tell the reader about the ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the stability of various factors influencing iran football premier league teams (manager, coach, players) and their role in their team success. the method was descriptive-correlation and the statistical population consisted of all team of iran football premier league from the 1st to the 11th round. for data collection, which included names and numbers of...

The aim of this research was determined the effect of assertiveness training on bullying, competitive state anxiety and performance under pressure in futsal players. 32 futsal players teenage guys who scored from low to moderate were scored in assertiveness questionnaire and were purposefully placed into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group was given eight session trainin...

Yamashita, D, Asakura, M, Ito, Y, Yamada, S, and Yamada, Y. Physical characteristics and performance of Japanese top-level American football players. J Strength Cond Res 31(9): 2455-2461, 2017-This study aimed to compare the physical characteristics and performance between top-level nonprofessional football players in Japan and National Football League (NFL) Combine invited players and between ...

Background: Sport performance in football players is determined by Aerobic and Anaerobic power in them. Aerobic power is best indicated by VO2max. VO2max is maximum capacity of individual’s body to transport and utilize the oxygen during exercise, which reflects the physical fitness of individual. Anaerobic power is power produced in absence of oxygen. Anaerobic capacity is useful in sprints in...

Football injuries account for more concussions than any other sport in North America. A 1977 survey of high school football players in Minnesota found that 19% of players reported at least one concussion (characterized by loss of awareness) during a season. These results have not been confirmed in subsequent studies. This study sought to estimate the incidence of concussion among high school fo...

Head injuries are relatively common in football, accounting for up to 22% of all injuries in the sport(1). A significant fraction of these injuries are concussions, which are states of neural dysfunction resulting from head trauma in which there is the possibility of auditory abnormalities may also be observed as part of the concussive state. Concussions in football players have been linked wit...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of protective headgear in adolescent football (soccer) players. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Oakville Soccer Club, Oakville, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Football players aged 12-17 years. INTERVENTION A questionnaire examining the 2006 football season using self-reported symptoms. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The number of concussions experienced during the...

one of the factors influencing the athletes’ performance in critical situations is their awareness of the strategies entailing mental skills. one such skill is self-talk that has been identified as an effective mental training tool in controlling human beings’ behaviors. this study aims to examine the perceived positive and negative effects of self-talk on the athletes’ performance. data were c...