Fish, Chips & Football
Fish, Chips & Football perfectly captures the joy of non-league football - discovering new towns and villages, chatting to new friends, pubs, pints, burgers, banter, delayed trains, lots of laughs - and groundhopping. The author watched 103 games from his base in Eastbourne and along the coast from Dover to Havant - from the shiny professionals in their stadiums to those who play on muddy, forgotten fields. This is a story of how football used to be.
Football Coaching
Football Coaching: Putting the Theory into Practice is an essential guide for any student on a football and football coaching related course, as well as a helpful resource for any football coach, no matter what level of qualification they have obtained or the amount of experience they have. A constant question asked by football coaches, is how should academic research inform applied coaching practice and in turn how should coaches apply academic research into their professional activities? This book presents answers to these questions by discussing the key academic research that is integral to coaching practice, before providing actual specific examples that demonstrate how these theories can be applied within the coaching environment and more specifically within the coaching practice of a football coach. Written by contributors, with expertise as both academics within higher education, as well as having years of experience working at the highest level within the industry, Football Coaching: Putting the Theory into Practice will be key reading for students on football coaching and related football degree courses as well as benefit coaches from other sports, specifically coaches from sports that are invasion games.
Physiological and Functional Assessment of Professional Football Players
Physiological and Functional Assessment of Professional Football Players presents a science-based approach to enhance athletes' performance and prevent muscle injuries. Professional football players undergo a rigorous competitive season with frequent and numerous competitions, exposing them to significant stress that can detrimentally affect their performance and lead to serious injuries in extreme cases. In order to avert such negative outcomes, coaches and team staff must formulate preventive training programs tailored to the unique characteristics and needs of each player.The execution of these individualized training programs necessitates a comprehensive assessment of players' health status, evaluation of their functional and fitness performance, analysis of their muscular structure, identification of muscle imbalances or movement dysfunctions, and detection of potential injury risk factors. Furthermore, it is imperative to monitor the weekly training and competition load using appropriate indicators of external and internal load, adjusting workloads accordingly.In addition, recovery-training programs must be meticulously designed for each injured player. This process involves isolating the factors causing the injury and assessing the injury's severity in the initial stage. Subsequently, recovery-training programs must be thoughtfully planned, incorporating various assessment tools and procedures to verify the restoration of players' functional ability and inform decisions about the return to play.'Physiological and Functional Assessment of Professional Football Players' delves into the utilization of appropriate testing protocols and emphasizes that understanding the reported data is crucial for the success of professional football training. This groundbreaking book is essential reading for researchers and practitioners in the fields of soccer, sports science, recovery, data and performance analysis, and soccer coaching.
