Recently, 12 European football clubs launched the idea of creating Super League. After massive protests from fans, Union Football Associations, politicians, coaches, and players, initiative was stopped. In this commentary, authors reflect on some problems facing argue that creation a League is not solution to challenges. However, does face require actions, thus provide suggestions progress.

BACKGROUND In Australian football, lower limb injuries have had the highest incidence and prevalence rates. Previous studies have shown that football players with relatively more severe preseason and playing season hip, groin, and thigh injuries had a significantly smaller multifidus muscle compared with players with no lower limb injuries. Rehabilitation of the multifidus muscle, with restorat...

Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the power and endurance characteristics of Hong Kong professional football players. Training recommendations can be deduced based on the comparison between Hong Kong and international football players. Methods Eighty-eight Hong Kong professional football players (height, 177.2 ± 6.4 cm; weight, 70.6 ± 7.6 kg; age, 25.6 ± 5.0 years) in th...

This article presents a novel model for evaluating the performance of field players in football. Based upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we employ a nonconcave metafrontier approach that permits estimation of players’ efficiency scores under consideration of their playing positions. The model is applied to a data set of Germany’s premier league football players covering the playing seasons ...

O ver the past decade, the sports medicine community has dealt with a very worrisome knowledge gap: that between those who suffer concussions playing football and the postmortem findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in former National Football League (NFL) players. At one end of the spectrum, we know that football players sustain regular head trauma, and as a medical community, we ...

If the costs and benefits of discriminating at the hiring stage differ from those at the retention and promotion stages, as recent evidence suggests, the effect of an individual’s race on a firm’s hiring decision should differ from its effect on the firm’s retention and promotion decisions. This paper presents the first direct empirical test of this proposition. Using data of players drafted in...

Using a data base of the movements of over two thousand professional footballers in the top two divisions of the English Football League between 1969 and 1995, this article examines the impact on talent distribution through the movement of players after gaterevenue sharing was abandoned in this league in 1983 and compares the results with the predictions of the Walrasian and Nash theoretical mo...

Ketorolac tromethamine (Toradol(®)) is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has potent analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. It can be administered orally, intravenously, intramuscularly, or via a nasal route. Ketorolac injections have been used for several years in the National Football League (NFL), in both the oral and injectable forms, to treat musculoskeletal injuries and to p...