This article examines the implications for football players of the way in which women’s sport is regularly framed within discourses of sexuality. It focuses on a premier league football team in New Zealand comprised of both homosexually and heterosexually identified women. Interviews with players reveal the extent to which homophobia is associated with women’s experiences of football and is som...

decision making plays an important role in sport activities and is directly associated with sporting success or failure. on the other hand, one of the key issues in psychology of sports and behavioral sciences is sport orientation. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of action and state orientation with decision making behavior of expert female football players. 27 players...

Previous studies indicated that the prevalence of symptomatic asthma is about 4 to 7 percent. No similar studies exist to suggest the prevalence of asthma in highly trained competitive athletes, since asthma is thought to be an uncommon disease in this population. We became concerned, therefore, when a large number of football players developed symptoms consistent with asthma during preparation...

BACKGROUND Sudden deaths of young competitive athletes are highly visible events that have a substantial effect on families and communities. Recent attention has focused predominantly on cardiovascular causes, and less on traumatic organ damage. OBJECTIVE To define the clinical profile, epidemiology, and frequency of trauma-related deaths in young US athletes. METHODS We analyzed the 30-yea...

Background: Little information is available on the results of microfracture in competitive football (soccer) players. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of this technique to restore joint function to a level that allows return to this popular highimpact sport. Methods: This article provides an overview of the basic science and the current published scientific evidence for articular cartilage rep...

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...

Effectively managing training intensity is important to optimize the health and performance of elite athletes. However, limited research has been conducted on relationship between wellness status in young football players. This study included 123 players 8 coaches from Malta Football Regional Centers (MFRH) U12/13 U14 groups. Participation was based voluntary basis each age group underwent two ...

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...