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Project: Sustainable football: Physical profile, training load, risk factors and injuries in Swedish elite football

This project aims to investigate the physical factors crucial for success in elite soccer and to understand how injuries impact a player's performance. Additionally, the objective is to develop a test battery for screening physical performance deficiencies, monitoring soccer players at risk of injury, and assessing readiness to return to play after an injury.

Project information

Project manager
Sofia Ryman Augustsson
Other project members
Haris Pojskić, Peter Pagels, Jesper Augustsson and Thony Ragnarsson, Linnaeus University
Ludvig Axelsson and Ida Wiberg, Kalmar FF
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University, Kalmar FF
Timetable
Nov 2024–
Subject
Sport science (Department of Sport Science, Faculty of Social Sciences)

More about the project

The aim of the project is to evaluate different aspects of physical fitness, muscle function, training load and their role as potential risk or protective factors for injury in elite Swedish football. Another aim is to follow youth players at the football academy (Swedish sports high schools for football) to explore which physical factors are important for success in elite football and how a possible injury affects the player's continued elite efforts. The aim is also to develop a test battery that can be used to screen for deficits in physical fitness, to monitor football players at risk of injury, and for return to sport after injury.

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