Lower limb strength in professional soccer players: Profile, asymmetry, and training age

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 364-373

  Fousekis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Tsepis, Elias ^b   Vagenas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Asymmetries; Isokinetic strength; Soccer; Trainingage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958028251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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