OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of tinea gladiatorum among young wrestlers and dermatophyte contamination of wrestling mats from Sari city, the capital of Mazandaran, a northern province of Iran. DESIGN 324 wrestlers (aged 9-20 years) from 7 active clubs in Sari city were examined, and skin scrapings were obtained from 135 wrestlers suspected of having tinea gladiatorum. The scraped skin sa...

the aim of this study was to examine the relationship of coaches’ servant leadership style with team efficacy and male athlete satisfaction in iran handball super league. the research method was descriptive-correlation conducted by standard questionnaires of servant leadership, team efficacy and athlete satisfaction. the population of this study consisted of male players of 12 handball super le...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate sport marketing mix factor and its seven components (production, price, promotion, place, public relations, people and physical evidence) in football premier league from the viewpoint of managers of physical education organization and football federation of islamic republic of iran. for this purpose, a researcher-made questionnaire (cronbach's alph...

The ability to produce peak performance plays a decisive role in the success of athletes in competitive contest situations. Levels of appetitive competition motivation (ACM), i.e., the desire to defeat an opponent independent of secondary reinforcing factors, were assessed in professional female football/soccer players in the premier and regional leagues, using club level as the measurement of ...

football is the most popular sport in developed countries which has a major share of the total sports industry market. in this study we used to determining the pricing equation premier of league football players of iran based on ordinary least squares. research tools were include of three achieved questionnaires that content validity was confirmed during the several meeting and discussed and re...

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...