Physical demands of different positions in FA Premier League soccer

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-70

  Bloomfield, Jonathan ^a   Polman, Remco ^b   O'Donoghue, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agility; Match play; Time motion analysis; Video analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947260511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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