ArticleBiology of sport2022
Do conditioning focused various-sided training games prepare elite youth male soccer players for the demands of competition?
Article in Biology of sport, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Position-Specific External Load Between Official Matches and Small-, Medium- and Large-Sided Games in Professional Football.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- Injury Epidemiology in Elite U17 Football Players: A Prospective Study Across Six Competitive Seasons.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Large-sided games do not replicate the positional worst-case scenarios of official matches in professional football.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Can We Replicate the Most Demanding Periods of Official Football Matches in Large-Sided Training Games?Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- A large-scale multivariate soccer athlete health, performance, and position monitoring dataset.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Do small-sided games prepare players for the worst-case scenarios of match play in elite young soccer players?Biology of sport · 2024Article
- Effects of free play or artificial rules on young soccer players' individual tactical behaviour: a one-by-one analysis.Biology of sport · 2023Article
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Abstract
Relative metrics (i.e. distance covered per minute of match time) are regularly used to quantify soccer player movement demands. However, limited literature is available concerning the peak player demands during training. This study aimed to compare the relative and peak demands of conditioning-focused various-sided training games (VSG) to competition matches in elite youth male soccer players according to playing position. Data from twenty-nine competition matches (national) and twenty-two VSGs (small, medium, and large) were collected for twenty-three elite under-17 soccer players using 15-Hz portable global positioning system tracking devices (GPSports, Canberra, Australia). Relative player movements were reported as total distance (TD) and high-speed running distance (HSRD) (> 5.0 m/s) per minute of total playing time. Peak player movements were calculated using a 1-minute rolling epoch length, reported as the maximum TD and HSRD. Linear mixed models demonstrated interactions between VSG type and player position for relative TD (
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