Interpretation and application of the laws of the game in football incidents leading to player injuries

International Journal of Sport Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 121-138

  Gilis, Bart ^a   Weston, Matthew ^a   Helsen, Werner F ^a   Junge, Astrid ^b   Dvorak, Jiri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contact injury; Decision making; Foul play

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849186191     PISSN: 00470767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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