Do conditioning focused various-sided training games prepare 
elite youth male soccer players for the demands of competition?

Sydney, Michael G.; Wollin, Martin; Chapman, Dale W.; Ball, Nick; Mara, Jocelyn K

doi:10.5114/biolsport.2022.109454

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“…Maybe the greater distance per minute reached in this position during both training sessions [ 26 ] and during SSG formats compared to other positions [ 27 , 28 ] could explain these outcomes, since they are related to the positional role of linking defence and attack. These findings are in line with previous research [ 17 , 20 ]. Therefore, these tasks seem less appropriate to replicate the most demanding phases of match play in the TDCR.…”

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“…In SSGs, the corners were replaced by a ball in game from the goalkeeper (except for 10 vs 10, where corners were performed). Coach feedback was present during each SSG and players were instructed to pressure the opposition as much as possible [ 17 ].…”

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“…Although there are studies analysing the differences between SSGs and official competitions [ 6 , 13 ], to the authors’ knowledge there is a gap in the literature examining the differences between SSGs and WCS during soccer competitions. Previous research [ 15 , 16 , 17 ] analysed the differences between SSGs and WCS. Nevertheless, only one previous study reported these differences considering young soccer players [ 17 ].…”

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“…Previous research [ 15 , 16 , 17 ] analysed the differences between SSGs and WCS. Nevertheless, only one previous study reported these differences considering young soccer players [ 17 ]. This information may be useful for developing soccer-specific training programmes designed to condition youth players to cope with potentially decisive periods of matches.…”

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“…It seems that the distance, HSD and distance covered when sprinting are the variables that have the lowest percentage of most demanding passages while performing the game formats studied, especially in the smallest formats of training games [ 16 ]. Meanwhile, with elite young players, Sydney et al [ 17 ] mentioned that no SSGs of different sizes were found to replicate the peak of total distance and HSD during match-play. However, these authors only considered two locomotor variables (total distance and HSD).…”

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The aim of the study was to determine whether the physical performance of young soccer player during various small sided games (SSGs) underloads, replicates or overloads the requirements of the worst-case scenarios (WCS) during match play. A total of 521 SSGs’ individual observations and 15 different formats of SSGs with different areas per player (ApP) (ApP100: < 100; ApP200: ranged from 101 to 200; ApP300: > 201, all in m 2 · player -1 ) were taken into consideration. Whole (90-min average; OM) and 15-, 5- and 1-min worst-case scenarios (WCS15, WCS5 and WCS1, respectively) were analysed. Total distance covered relative (m · min -1 ) (TDCR), high-speed distance relative (m · min -1 ) (HSDR), very high-speed distance relative (m · min -1 ) (VHSDR) and sprint distance relative (m · min -1 ) (SDR), player load relative (PLR) and both total (ACCR) and high intensity relative accelerations (n · min -1 ) (ACCHR) were collected. All external load measures analysed were significantly higher in WCS1 compared to WCS of longer duration and SSGs with different ApP (p < 0.001). The analysis demonstrated interactions between game type and player positions (p < 0.001) for TDCR, VHSDR, PLR and ACCHR. The SSG formats did not sufficiently stimulate the WCS for locomotor demands (VHSDR and SDR). SSGs played on an ApP100 overestimated the mechanical values compared to WCS15 and WCS5. The analysed SSG formats did not sufficiently stimulate players to cope with all external load demands that occurred during WCS1. This study provides useful information for practitioners on the heightened impact of different SSG formats on external load in relation to the WCS of competitive match play.

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A large-scale multivariate soccer athlete health, performance, and position monitoring dataset

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Data analysis for athletic performance optimization and injury prevention is of tremendous interest to sports teams and the scientific community. However, sports data are often sparse and hard to obtain due to legal restrictions, unwillingness to share, and lack of personnel resources to be assigned to the tedious process of data curation. These constraints make it difficult to develop automated systems for analysis, which require large datasets for learning. We therefore present SoccerMon, the largest soccer athlete dataset available today containing both subjective and objective metrics, collected from two different elite women’s soccer teams over two years. Our dataset contains 33,849 subjective reports and 10,075 objective reports, the latter including over six billion GPS position measurements. SoccerMon can not only play a valuable role in developing better analysis and prediction systems for soccer, but also inspire similar data collection activities in other domains which can benefit from subjective athlete reports, GPS position information, and/or time-series data in general.

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Critical speed models of high-resolution speed-duration profiles describe peak running demands in soccer

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The purpose of this study was to characterize critical speed (CS) models for summarizing high-resolution speed-duration profiles from GPS tracking data obtained from soccer players. GPS data from 15 male NCAA Division I soccer players were collected during practices and games over a 6-week period. Moving averages of the speed data were computed for each file for duration windows spanning 0.1 to 600 seconds at 0.1-second resolution. Speed-duration profiles for each session and for the entire sampling period (“global”) were generated for each player by selecting the maximal mean speeds for each duration. Four models were fit to the profiles: the two-parameter CS (CS2) model, the three-parameter CS (CS3) model, the omni-domain speed-duration (OmSD) model, and the five-parameter logistic (5PL) model. The 5PL, CS3, and OmSD models exhibited similar goodness of fits, and all outperformed the CS2 model. Similar CS estimates were obtained for each model, whereas maximum speed ( Smax) estimates were lower for OmSD compared to the 5PL. Players exhibited a range of parameter values for CS, D′, and Smax. Smax and CS estimated from session-specific speed-duration profiles were on average higher for games compared to practices. We conclude that CS models are useful for empirically describing speed-duration profiles and for assessing peak running demands for soccer practices and games. The proposed approach could help coaches design practice activities to better mimic game demands.

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Do conditioning focused various-sided training games prepare elite youth male soccer players for the demands of competition?

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Do small-sided games prepare players for the worst-case scenarios of match play in elite young soccer players?

Do small-sided games prepare players for the worst-case scenarios of match play in elite young soccer players?

A large-scale multivariate soccer athlete health, performance, and position monitoring dataset

Critical speed models of high-resolution speed-duration profiles describe peak running demands in soccer

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