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Power wheelchair adaptive team sport involvement: Experience, impact on quality of life, and physical fitness
Hayward, L., Hogan, D., Melam, A., Raine, L., McCullough, A., Bell, A.Published in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (2025)“…WHOQOL-BREF means averaged 60 points for all four domains, no significant differences existed between US and Scandinavian players. …”
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Investigating static water uptake characteristics and mechanisms for leather and synthetic association footballs
Phillips, I., Harland, A., Mitchell, S., Lepper, P.Published in Sports Engineering (2025)“…In association football, players repetitively head the ball for competitive advantages, potentially inducing or exacerbating repetitive acute asymptomatic brain injury pertaining to an elevated risk of neurodegenerative disease development and mortality in later life. During these collisions, the mass of the ball is widely considered an important determinant to collision duress. …”
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Junior-to-senior transition in elite female football: identifying predominant sources of stress among junior players from both player and coach perspectives
Selbekk, S., Lilleengen, M., Stålesen, J., Ransom, D., Sæther, S.Published in Frontiers in Psychology (2025)“…Introduction: The purpose of this case study is to gain insight into and a deeper understanding of the predominant sources of stress during the junior-to-senior transition experienced by current and former female junior players and their male coaches from both the junior and senior teams. Methods: All three groups of participants were affiliated with the same Norwegian professional football club. …”
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Evaluation of professional soccer players` diet and body composition
Ramos, N. C., Almeida, I. C. O., Silva, L. L., Jr. Sevilio, M. N. O., Rodrigues Jr., J. F. C.Published in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (2025)“…In addition to a proper diet, the assessment of athletes` body composition provides an important component in a physical fitness program, controlling body weight, maintaining a high level of physiological functioning, being related to health, quality of life and performance (Mantovaneli et al., 2023). …”
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Male football players have better patient-reported outcomes after primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction compared with females
Fältström, A., Hägglund, M., Kvist, J.Published in BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation (2024)“…Males were more satisfied with their knee function and activity level and rated higher scores in the IKDC-SKF (mean ± standard deviation, 83 ± 16 vs 76 ± 16, p = 0.006), KOOS Sport/Recreation (79 ± 19 vs 72 ± 22, p = 0.034), KOOS Quality of Life (73 ± 22 vs 64 ± 20, p = 0.008), ACL-QoL (7.6 ± 2 vs 6.8 ± 1.8, p = 0.008), and ACL-RSI (6.7 ± 2.1 vs 5.5 ± 2.3, p < 0.001) than females (all with small - medium effect sizes). …”
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Narratives of Swiss football players about talent - and positive youth development: The role of social agents and agency
Koch, P., Charbonnet, B., Ronkainen, N.Published in Current Issues in Sport Science (2025)“…Central to this framework is the shift from static, one-size-fits-all approaches to a dynamic, idiographic perspective where intertwined relationships between athletes and their social environments influence each other over time. …”
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Within satisfaction and distress: Characterizing the first cultural transition of young talented Cameroonian footballers
Waffo, B. T., Hauw, D.Published in Current Issues in Sport Science (2025)“…By identifying challenges faced, and psychological process involved, those researches highlight at what extent culture frames athletes` sport and non-sport life experiences. However, no studies focused on neither the first cultural transition nor African athletes. …”
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Identification of potential risk factors for lower limb injuries in female team-sport athletes: a prospective cohort study
Almousa, S., Mullen, R., Williams, K., Bourne, M., Williams, M.Published in Science and Medicine in Football (2024)“…Results: One hundred and nine athletes provided one-year follow-up injury data, of whom, 44 suffered at least one lower limb injury. All athletes who reported high scores for negative life-event stress sustained lower limb injuries. …”
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Development and validation of an interview guide for examining the effects of sports careers on the quality of life of retired Portuguese football players
Teixeira, E., Silva, C., Vicente, A.Published in Frontiers in Psychology (2024)“…Results and discussion: To analyze and discuss the data, a content analysis was carried out on all the answers given to each question in the script by the interviewees. …”
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`We`re sweeping the floors`: life as an EFL Championship youth academy player
Hague, N., Law, G.Published in Soccer & Society (2024)“…This study sought to explore life "off the pitch" at one English Championship Youth Academy. …”
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End on a positive note: an exploration of flourishing, identity, and career confidence in professional Australian footballers transitioning out of football
Rist, B., Quartuccio, C., Smith, B., Pearce, A. J.Published in Science and Medicine in Football (2025)“…Correlations showed that retired players were more confidence in their finances, reported greater psychological flourishing, and lower attachment to an athletic identity (all p = 0.05). The results of this study suggest that as deselected players expressed poorer perception of club`s handling of the transition process the role of AFL club staff could improve the transition process in in preparation for life outside of professional sport.…”
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Psychological risk factors of a first hamstring strain injury in soccer: a qualitative study
Baize, D., d'Arripe-Longueville, F., Piponnier, E., Mériaux-Scoffier, S.Published in 28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, 4-7 July 2023, Paris, France (2023)“…They were exposed to a controlling coaching context with a fear of negative staff evaluation, and had recently undergone injuries or life stressors. When injured, all athletes were in positive psychological states. …”
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Twenty-three-year-old collegiate soccer athlete with bilateral femoral head avascular necrosis: a case report
Folkert, A. K., Tripp, B. L., Brown, C. D.Published in International Journal of Athletic Therapy & Training (2023)“…Although not seen often in athletic populations, athletic trainers should be aware of the possibility of AVN in patients. AVN is a life-altering condition and accurately documenting all patient encounters, and proper interprofessional collaboration is imperative for positive outcomes.…”
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Relative age effects in the selection of representative athletes of Kosovo national team in handball, football, basketball, volleyball - Post puberty age
Haxhnikaj, L., Miftari, F.Published in SportMont (2023)“…Taking into account the role that the selection of athletes has in the success of clubs as well as in the sports life of young people, this research aims to highlight the impact of the Relative Age Effects (RAE) in the selection of athletes for representative teams of Kosovo in collective sports and the difference between the respective groups. …”
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The effects of weather factors and altitude on physical and technical performance in professional soccer: A systematic review
Illmer, S., Daumann, F.Published in Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Plus (2022)“…From 2.396 records, 150 were selected for detailed screening. 21 studies were included in this review that met the following inclusion criteria: professional male or female soccer players over 18 years of age; field study under real-life conditions; effects on physical and/or technical performance, influence of at least one weather-related factor. …”
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Tactical lexical knowledge of soccer by age 15 and 18
Acoumambo, D.Published in 28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, 4-7 July 2023, Paris, France (2023)“…Introduction According to the theory of the development of lexical knowledge (Lieury & Lorant, 2013), the lexicon is built progressively over the course of life through different stages and experiences. The objective of this study is to measure the effect of age on the size of the football tactical lexicon. …”
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Analysis of factors influencing German youth football players` club membership with a particular focus on dropout
Löbig, A., Schlesinger, T., Breuer, M., Ehnold, P.Published in Soccer & Society (2023)“…The article explores the impact of intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural conditions as well as influences from other areas of life on youth football membership and dropout. With reference to a life course approach, football players (n = 15) from various clubs (n = 4) were interviewed using biographical mapping. …”
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Racism in football
Kassimeris, C., Lawrence, S., Pipini, M.Published in Soccer & Society (2022)“…From individual fans either throwing bananas or making monkey-like sounds to organized neo-Nazi fans celebrating on the terraces, the superiority of all things white, non-white football players has long suffered abuse in football. …”
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Midseason screening for groin pain, severity, and disability in 101 elite American youth soccer players: a cross-sectional study
DeLang, M. D., Garrison, J. C., Hannon, J. P., McGovern, R. P., Sheedy, P., Christoforetti, J. J., Thorborg, K.Published in Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine (2022)“…Participants: One hundred one academy soccer players (mean age 14.3 ± 1.8 years). Intervention: All players underwent clinical examinations to classify groin pain by the Doha agreement taxonomy. …”
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COVID-19 and the Soccer World
Bandyopadhyay, K.Published 2022“…The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent pandemic since early 2020 have brought about unprecedented changes in all spheres of global life, creating a new sense of (in)security with social distancing, physical isolation, quarantine and lockdown becoming buzzwords to combat the disease. …”