Physical and technical activity of soccer players in the French first league- with special reference to their playing position

International SportMed Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Dellal, Alexandre ^a,b,c   Wong, Del P ^d   Moalla, Wassim ^b   Chamari, Karim ^b  

^a University of Sports Science and Exercise   (France)

^b National Centre of Medicine and Science in Sport CNMSS   (Tunisia)

^c Ivory Coast National Football Team   (France)

^d THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aerobic capacity; Fitness training; High level football; Repeated sprint ability; RSA; Specific training

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955141058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15283356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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