Welcome to footballscience.net

The objectives of footballscience.net are:

  • to scientifically question statements, trends and opinions in football
  • to update coaches on scientific knowledge and its application in football
  • to help coaches in their development and finally for the good of the game

Tue

18

Jun

2013

Latest research in football - week 25 - 2013

Latest research in football

As previous literature updates, we have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.
 
Following studies were retrieved for this week:

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Mon

17

Jun

2013

Homepage update - Testing agility in football players

Testing

Hello everyone,

 

here is the next update of our homepage.

We have written a text about testing agility in football players.

 

Please click HERE or just follow the navigation Testing - Agility.

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Sat

15

Jun

2013

Latest research in football - week 24 - 2013

Latest research in football

As previous literature updates, we have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.
 
Following studies were retrieved for this week:

 

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Wed

12

Jun

2013

Football club (brands) and their estimated value

Non-s(ci)ence

We reported about the gross income from the top European football clubs for the past football season in a blog a couple of weeks ago.

This time, we would like to present the “Top scorer” with regards to the estimated value of the club/brand as it was repeatedly reported (CNN, BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Telegraph) that Bayern Munich pushes ManU from the top after winning the treble including the prestigious UEFA Champions League title.

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Tue

11

Jun

2013

Homepage update - Part I of "Testing aerobic endurance of football players"

Testing

As the first part of our series “Testing aerobic endurance” in football players, we are discussing a real “classic” (maybe even THE godfather of) test(s) – The Cooper test.

The LINK will guide to the section where we discuss the test, how to perform it, the equipment needed, its correlation and validity with/in football players/performance, how it can be used to calculate players’ VO2max and also point(s) of criticism.

 

Or you can go to Testing --> Aerobic endurance --> Cooper test

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Mon

10

Jun

2013

What was going on off the pitch last week?

Non-s(cie)nce

Below we have given some interesting articles found on the FIFA.com website from last week.

 

They caught our eye as they are not about results of matches, but more about what is going on off the pitch.

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Sat

08

Jun

2013

Homepage update - Testing Change Of Direction in football

Testing

We have updated our website about testing Change of Direction (COD) ability in football.

 

You can use THIS LINK or the navigation at the top of the website to get to the updated part.

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Tue

04

Jun

2013

Latest research in football - week 23 - 2013

As previous literature updates, we have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.
 
Following abstracts of studies were retrieved for this week:

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Sat

01

Jun

2013

Latest research in football - week 22 - 2013

As previous literature updates, we have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.
 
Following studies were retrieved for this week:

 

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Fri

31

May

2013

Homepage update - Strength training in football

We have updated the training section on our website.

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