ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2023
Training load comparison between small, medium, and large-sided games in professional football.
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- Current approaches to measuring high-intensity locomotor actions in adult male professional soccer. A scoping review.Biology of sport · 2026Review
- Effects of Combined Repeated Sprint and Large-Sided Game Training on Physical Performance in Elite U20 Soccer Players: A Randomised Controlled Trial.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Can We Replicate the Most Demanding Periods of Official Football Matches in Large-Sided Training Games?Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Comparison of the worst-case scenarios between training and competition weeks for each playing position in an elite football season.Biology of sport · 2025Article
- A comparison of box-to-box and positional possession styles: selecting an appropriate game format for U13 footballers (a pilot study).Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Balancing the load: A narrative review with methodological implications of compensatory training strategies for non-starting soccer players.Biology of sport · 2024Article
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- Tracking devices and physical performance analysis in team sports: a comprehensive framework for research-trends and future directions.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Review
- Exploring the interplay between metabolic power and equivalent distance in training games and official matches in soccer: a machine learning approach.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to assess if internal and external load parameters were different between sided game formats, if players' positions influenced these parameters, and if load parameters were different among sided game types (from 2vs2 to 10vs10) in professional football players. Twenty-five male players of the same club were enrolled in this study (age = 27 ± 9 years and body mass = 78 ± 14 kg). Sided games were categorized in formats as small-sided games (SSG,
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