As previous literature updates, I have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.    Following studies were retrieved for this week: #1 Improvement of Groin Pain in a Football Player with Femoroacetabular Impingement via a Correction of the Pelvic Position-A Case Report Reference: J Clin Med. 2023 Nov 30;12(23):7443. doi: 10.3390/jcm12237443. Authors: Oliver Ludwig, Günther Schneider, Jens Kelm Summary: Femoroacetabular impingement is one possible cause for groin pain and can lead to long periods of absence for fo ..read more

The aim was to compared in-game penalty kicks taken by home and away teams with audiences in the 2018-2019 season to kicks taken without audiences in the 2020-2021 season during the COVID-19 pandemic ..read more

The anthropometric profile assessment is an important aspect to consider during the growth stages of youth sport practitioners due to its usefulness in controlling maturity status and overall health ..read more

As previous literature updates, I have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.    Following studies were retrieved for this week: #1 Cognition in soccer and futsal: evidence of validity of a 4-instrument protocol to assess executive functioning among women athletes Reference: BMC Psychol. 2023 Dec 9;11(1):436. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01464-0. Authors: Alberto Filgueiras, Matthew Stults-Kolehmainen, Gislane Melo, Richard Keegan  Download link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10709850/pdf/40359_ ..read more

The aims of the study were to build models using logistic regression analysis of flexibility and strength tests to prospectively predict risk factors for anterior cruciate ligament tear (ACL-tear) in female soccer (FS) players, and to determine training cut-off for risk factors of the predictive model built ..read more

The purposes of this study were to reduce dimensionality of external training load variables and examine how the selected variables varied within microcycle in elite North American soccer players ..read more

This study aimed to determine differences in match running performance (MRP) of elite soccer players during matches played on artificial turf (AT) and natural grass (NG ..read more

As previous literature updates, I have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.    Following studies were retrieved for this week: #1 Effects of "Football and Nutrition for Health" program on body composition, physical fitness, eating behaviours, nutritional knowledge, and psychological status among 7 to 10 years school children Reference: Front Pediatr. 2023 Nov 8:11:1251053. doi: 10.3389/fped.2023.1251053. eCollection 2023. Authors: Micaela C Morgado, Mónica Sousa, André B Coelho, Susana Vale, Júlio A Costa, A ..read more

Muscle typology is heterogeneous among national level soccer players, but positional differences remain unclear. Furthermore, fast typology (FT) individuals fatigue more than slow typology (ST) individuals in lab conditions. Therefore, we investigated if muscle typology is different between playing positions and if the decay in high-intensity activities from the first to the second half is larger in FT football players than in ST players ..read more

As previous literature updates, I have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.    Following studies were retrieved for this week: #1 Aluminum Concentrations in Male and Female Football Players during the Season Reference: Toxics. 2023 Nov 10;11(11):920. doi: 10.3390/toxics11110920. Authors: María C Robles-Gil, Víctor Toro-Román, Marcos Maynar-Mariño, Jesús Siquier-Coll, Ignacio Bartolomé, Francisco J Grijota Summary: Aluminum (Al) is one of the most abundant trace mineral elements in the earth's crust. Al is co ..read more