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Match-related physical performance in professional soccer: Position or player specific?

The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent the physical match performance of professional soccer players is both position and player specific. First, official match data from the 2019/20 German Bundesliga season was used to search for players that met the inclusion criteria of playing a...

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Autores principales: Altmann, Stefan, Forcher, Leon, Ruf, Ludwig, Beavan, Adam, Groß, Timo, Lussi, Philipp, Woll, Alexander, Härtel, Sascha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8432651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256695
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author Altmann, Stefan
Forcher, Leon
Ruf, Ludwig
Beavan, Adam
Groß, Timo
Lussi, Philipp
Woll, Alexander
Härtel, Sascha
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Ruf, Ludwig
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Lussi, Philipp
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description The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent the physical match performance of professional soccer players is both position and player specific. First, official match data from the 2019/20 German Bundesliga season was used to search for players that met the inclusion criteria of playing a minimum of four entire matches in at least two different playing positions. Overall, 25 players met the criteria prior to the COVID-19 induced break, playing a minimum of eight matches. Second, the physical match performance of these players was analyzed separately for each position they played. The following four parameters were captured: total distance, high-intensity distance, sprinting distance, and accelerations. Third, the 25 players’ physical match performance data was then compared to normative data for each position they played to understand whether players adapted their physical performance (position dependent), or maintained their performance regardless of which position they were assigned to (position independent). When switching the position, the change in physical match performance of the respective players could be explained by 44–58% through the normative positional data. Moreover, there existed large individual differences in the way players adapted or maintained their performance when acting in different positions. Coaches and practitioners should be aware that some professional soccer players will likely incur differences in the composition of physical match performance when switching positions and therefore should pay special consideration for such differences in the training and recovery process of these players.
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spelling pubmed-84326512021-09-11 Match-related physical performance in professional soccer: Position or player specific? Altmann, Stefan Forcher, Leon Ruf, Ludwig Beavan, Adam Groß, Timo Lussi, Philipp Woll, Alexander Härtel, Sascha PLoS One Research Article The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent the physical match performance of professional soccer players is both position and player specific. First, official match data from the 2019/20 German Bundesliga season was used to search for players that met the inclusion criteria of playing a minimum of four entire matches in at least two different playing positions. Overall, 25 players met the criteria prior to the COVID-19 induced break, playing a minimum of eight matches. Second, the physical match performance of these players was analyzed separately for each position they played. The following four parameters were captured: total distance, high-intensity distance, sprinting distance, and accelerations. Third, the 25 players’ physical match performance data was then compared to normative data for each position they played to understand whether players adapted their physical performance (position dependent), or maintained their performance regardless of which position they were assigned to (position independent). When switching the position, the change in physical match performance of the respective players could be explained by 44–58% through the normative positional data. Moreover, there existed large individual differences in the way players adapted or maintained their performance when acting in different positions. Coaches and practitioners should be aware that some professional soccer players will likely incur differences in the composition of physical match performance when switching positions and therefore should pay special consideration for such differences in the training and recovery process of these players. Public Library of Science 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8432651/ /pubmed/34506520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256695 Text en © 2021 Altmann et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Forcher, Leon
Ruf, Ludwig
Beavan, Adam
Groß, Timo
Lussi, Philipp
Woll, Alexander
Härtel, Sascha
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8432651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256695
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