Dr. Halim is Clinical Pro fessor in Car d io logy and par t time lecturer in medicine at the Medica l Un ivers i ty o f Khartoum. He was President of the Sudan Football Association from 19531973 and has served a member of the International Olympic Committee ever since 1968. He is a member of the FIFA Executive Committee and Vice-Chairman of the FIFA Medical Committee. Dr. Halim has been studyin...

We describe Fibres of Failure (FIFA), a method to classify failure modes of predictive processes using the MAPPER algorithm from Topological Data Analysis. Our method uses MAPPER to build a graph model of input data stratified by prediction error. Groupings found in high-error regions of the MAPPER model then provide distinct failure modes of the predictive process. We demonstrate FIFA on miscl...

1. On August 8, 2005, the District Attorney’s Office of the Canton of Zug opened a criminal investigation against an unknown party regarding disloyal management to the detriment of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (hereinafter FIFA). The initial suspicion that led to the opening of the proceedings resulted from the taking of evidence, which was done in the context of the invest...

Background. Insufficient movement patterns may expose athletes to injury, so it is vital to recognize and rectify these movement patterns. Objectives. The purpose of this study was to assess the fundamental movement patterns and determine the effect of a four-week FIFA+11 program on functional movement screen (FMS) scores of junior soccer players. Methods. A pre-test post-test quasi-exp...

BACKGROUND The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 11+ program has been shown to be an effective injury prevention program in the female soccer cohort, but there is a paucity of research to demonstrate its efficacy in the male population. HYPOTHESIS To examine the efficacy of the FIFA 11+ program in men's collegiate United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (...

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Objective To analyze the training effects of the FIFA 11+ kids on several parameters of physical performance in male youth football players. Materials and methods Twenty-three youth players were randomized within each team into two groups (control vs. intervention). The intervention group performed the FIFA 11+ kids programme 2 times a week for 4 weeks; the control groups completed their norm...

The assumptions of statistical procedures are enforced more rigorously in some disciplines than in others. Previous research into the accuracy of predictive modelling techniques has provided examples where models based on data that violate the relevant assumptions is greater than that of models where the assumptions were satisfied. The purpose of this investigation was to develop two sets of 4 ...

BACKGROUND The FIFA Medical and Research Centre (F-MARC) has designed a comprehensive warm-up program targeting muscular strength, body kinaesthetic awareness, and neuromuscular control during static and dynamic movements to decrease injury risk for soccer players. Prior studies have investigated the effectiveness of the F-MARC programs, but have not consistently reported a statistically signif...

The assumptions of statistical procedures are enforced more rigorously in some disciplines than in others. Outliers are often removed from data sets due to concerns over measurement error. However when predicting the outcomes of sports performances, such outliers represent real and valid performances such as Germany’s 8-0 win over Saudi Arabia in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Previous research into ...