Sport-related concussion in Brazilian professional soccer: A four-year prospective epidemiological analysis by Guilherme Corrêa de Araújo Moury Fernandes, Ewerton Borges de Souza Lima, Paulo Henrique Schmidt Lara, Ana Camila de Castro Gandolfi, Jorge Roberto Pagura, Gustavo Gonçalves Arliani, Moisés Cohen

“…Among them, there were 178 head and 121 face traumas, which led to 87 SRC (representing 29.10% of all CMFT), with an incidence of 0.69. Defensive midfielders (14.43%) and goalkeepers (14.00%) had the highest prevalence rates of CMFT. …”
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Modularity in Football Passing Networks by Sandy İpeker, Necmi Gürsakal, Bülent Batmaz, Fırat Yılmaz, Halil Orbay Çobanoğlu

“…Generally so called modules in the technical directors’ thoughts can be listed as defense, midfielders area and strikers area. If they want to know how modules are generated and how their disconnection leads to functional decay they should analyze the modularity formed as a result of a football match. …”
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Characterizing microcycles’ workload when combining two days structure within single training sessions during congested fixtures in an elite male soccer team by Antonio Gómez-Díaz, Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, Pedro Menezes, João Barreira, Pedro Figueiredo, Diogo Coutinho

“…Fullbacks covered higher high-speed running distance ( F = 3.6, p = 0.033) than center backs, while midfielders reported higher RPE ( F = 5.29, p = 0.003) values than defensive midfielders and fullbacks. Coaches may use the MD+1 MD−2 to emphasize total distance covered, while both MD+1 MD−2 and MD-2 MD+2 to promote HSR and HML distance compared to MD-1 sessions. …”
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