ArticleJournal of human kinetics2025
Area per Player in Small-Sided Games to Estimate the External Load in Elite Youth Soccer Players.
Article in Journal of human kinetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Effects of Task Constraint Manipulation on Physical, Physiological and Technical-Tactical Demands of Small-Sided Games in Soccer: A Systematic Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Review
- Game Density Modulates External Load During Small-Sided Games in Elite U17 Soccer Players.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2026Article
- Collegiate Male Soccer Players Reporting Their Perceived Exertion: Differences in Internal and External Intensity between Different RPE Values and Zones.Journal of human kinetics · 2026Article
- The Impact of Field Size on Positional and Possession Games: Variations in Physical Demands across Player Positions in Soccer Training.Journal of human kinetics · 2026Article
- Effects of player number and pitch size on internal and external load in small-sided Ultimate Frisbee games.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A Call for Consensus: A Narrative Review of GPS-Based External Training Load Monitoring in Male Youth Soccer Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Match-Related Acute and Residual Changes of Hip-Adduction Strength in Youth Soccer Players.Journal of human kinetics · 2026Article
- You Play the Way You Train: The Influence of Accumulated Weekly Training Loads on Match Physical Performance in Soccer Players.Journal of human kinetics · 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
- Who Runs the Most? Positional Demands in a 4-3-3 Formation Among Elite Youth Footballers.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Small-sided games (SSGs) refer to game formats where there are variations in the pitch size, the number of players, and rules as compared to official soccer matches. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between GPS-derived external loads and the SSGs' area per player (ApP) in elite youth soccer players to identify whether the ApP influenced GPS-derived external load measures to estimate external load variables from SSGs with different densities (i.e., ApP100: the ApP <150 m
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