Football Science—from Health to Sports Performance
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 28060
Special Issue Editors
Interests: higher education; teacher education; behavioural science; sport psychology; qualitative social research
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Interests: psychology; self-determination; team sports; performance analysis
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Interests: football; soccer; match analysis; performance analysis; network analysis
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Interests: health promotion; correlates of physical activity, fitness, and physical education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A Topical Collection on Football Science and Physical Health, in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, is being organized.
Physical inactivity has been identified as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality, contributing to 6% of deaths worldwide. In this context, the urgent need to create and develop intervention programs that are effective in promoting active lifestyles has been emphasized by different entities (e.g., WHO and UNESCO).
Since football is the most popular sport in the world, and taking into account that its variants (futsal, beach soccer) are growing exponentially in terms of the number of practitioners, we can emphasize the importance of this sport in promoting healthier lifestyles.
In this sense, researchers are invited to submit investigations that focus their analysis on the effects that regular practice of the sport may have on the health of its practitioners at different competitive levels (recreational, amateur, professional), and also on the analysis of current trends in the collective behaviors of these forms of the game (soccer, futsal and beach soccer).
The keywords listed below provide an outline of some of the possible areas of interest.
Dr. Hugo Miguel Borges Sarmento
Dr. Tomás Garcia-Calvo
Dr. Filipe Manuel Clemente
Dr. Adilson Marques
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- football
- futsal
- beach soccer
- health care setting
- prevention
- treatment
- disease
- non-communicable disease
- recreational sport
- professional sport
- load monitoring
- performance analysis
- match analysis
- game analysis
- collective behavior