Variability of inter-team distances associated with match events in elite-standard soccer

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1207-1213

  Frencken, Wouter ^a   de Poel, Harjo ^a   Visscher, Chris ^a   Lemmink, Koen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dynamical systems; performance; perturbations; tactics; team sports

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RUNNING; SPORT;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; RUNNING; SOCCER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865160474     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2012.703783     Document Type: Article

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