Match Running Performance During Fixture Congestion in Elite Soccer: Research Issues and Future Directions

Sports Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 605-613

  Carling, Christopher ^a,b,e   Gregson, Warren ^c   McCall, Alan ^b,g   Moreira, Alexandre ^d   Wong, Del P ^e   Bradley, Paul S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre de Formation   (France)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e Hong Kong Institute of Higher Education   (China)

^f LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SOCCER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; HUMANS; RUNNING; SOCCER; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 84939984740     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-015-0313-z     Document Type: Editorial

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