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Garcia Martin, A, Casamichana Gómez, D, Castellano, J, Bradley, PS and Gomez, A (2021) Accumulative weekly load in a professional football team: with special reference to match playing time and game position. Biology of Sport, 39 (1). pp. 115-124. ISSN 0860-021X
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to compare weekly accumulative load during the in-season competitive period by professional soccer players according to the amount of time played in official matches (90-min, >60-min, <60-min, and 0-min) regarding the players’ position. Twenty-four professional outfield football players were monitored by GPS devices during training sessions and official matches and the accumulative weekly load were calculated for the following external load variables: total distance (TD; m), high speed running (HSR; >19.8 km·h-1), sprint meters (SPR; >25.2 km·h-1), high metabolic load distance (HMLD; >25.5 W·kg-1), number of accelerations (ACC; >3 m·s-2) and decelerations (DEC; <-3 m·s-2). This study revealed that players (as a whole o per demarcation) with more match playing time had a higher accumulative weekly load for most of the variables, but particularly at TD and HMLD (90-min and >60-min vs. <60-min and 0-min), HSR (90-min vs. <60-min and 0-min) and SPR (90-min vs. <60-min and 0-min). In addition, less positional variation was observed in relation to the competition requirements. This information would allow coaches to refine the required load with the objective of optimizing performance to soccer players.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine |
| Divisions: | Sport & Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Institute of Sport |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2022 11:51 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2022 12:00 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.5114/biolsport.2021.102924 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16511 |
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