BACKGROUND Nowadays, doping is an intricate dilemma. Football is the nationally popular sport in Iran. On the other hand, doping is a serious health hazard sport faces today. Studies dealing with athletes' knowledge, attitudes and behavior concerning doping in football are scarce. OBJECTIVES Therefore, we aimed to investigate the knowledge and attitudes toward doping among the football coache...

Water influences skin inflammation of the external auditory canal. The common term for this illness is "swimmer's ear". Contributory factors are length of exposure to water, type of water and water pollution. The aim of the study was to compare risks for contracting the disease between patients with different exposure to swimming pool water. A retrospective case-control analysis of patients at ...

BACKGROUND Long-term physical exercise leads to left ventricular morphological adaptations, which vary with the kind of sport and the intensity and extent of the training. Although the echocardiographic changes related to exercise in athletes participating in various sports have been well described, changes associated with football players have been less well documented. The aim of this study w...

This paper deals with the problem of tracking football players in a football match using data from a single moving camera. Tracking footballers from a single video source is di cult: not only do the football players occlude each other, but they frequently enter and leave the camera's eld of view, making initialisation and destruction of a player's tracking a di cult task. The system presented h...

Specific football drills improve the development of technical/tactical and physical variables in players. Based on this principle, in recent years it has been possible to observe in daily training a growing volume of small-sided and conditioned games. These games are smaller and modified forms of formal games that augment players' perception of specific tactics. Despite this approach, the asses...

T study’s purpose was to investigate how junior football players representing a professional club experienced stressors according to there given playing time. Participants (N43) represented 3 football clubs (mean 17.4 yrs). The results showed that the players playing all matches reported a lower level of stress related to performance and future stress compared to the players playing few matches...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between recorded head accelerations and impact locations and acute clinical outcome of symptomatology, neuropsychological, and postural stability tests after cerebral concussion in Division I collegiate football players. METHODS A prospective field study was used in which accelerometers were embedded in the football helmets of 88 collegiate football pla...

The researchers aimed to investigate the impact of anaerobic efficiency exercises on skillful and tactical performance young futsal players. study was conducted using an experimental approach with control groups, a pre post test conducted. research sample consisted 20 players from two football clubs in Wasit Governorate. found that training contributed improving group, use tools like Swiss ball...

UNLABELLED Football players are subjected to repetitive impacts that may lead to brain injury and neurologic dysfunction. Knowledge about head impact exposure (HIE) and consequent neurologic function among youth football players is limited. PURPOSE This study aimed to measure and characterize HIE of youth football players throughout one season and explore associations between HIE and changes ...