Special Issue: Science and Medicine In Football
Editorial
Return to play decisions – a highly important albeit unsolved issue
Barry Drust, Franco Impellizzeri & Tim Meyer
Pages: 1205-1205
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.937930
Science and Medicine in Football
Comment on “Football-specific fitness testing: adding value or confirming the evidence?”
Christopher Carling & Dave Collins
Pages: 1206-1208
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.898858
Return to Play
Return to competitive football after major knee surgery: more questions than answers?
Mario Bizzini & Holly Jacinda Silvers
Pages: 1209-1216
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.909603
Return to play management after concussion in football: recommendations for team physicians
Nina Feddermann-Demont, Dominik Straumann & Jiří Dvořák
Pages: 1217-1228
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.918273
Return to play following muscle injuries in professional footballers
Anna Hallén & Jan Ekstrand
Pages: 1229-1236
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.905695
Return to play after acute infectious disease in football players
Jürgen Scharhag & Tim Meyer
Pages: 1237-1242
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.898861
Science and Medicine in Football
Relationships between anthropometric measures and athletic performance, with special reference to repeated-sprint ability, in the Qatar national soccer team
Franck Brocherie, Olivier Girard, Fabricio Forchino, Hani Al Haddad, Gilvan A. Dos Santos & Grégoire P. Millet
Pages: 1243-1254
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2013.862840
Anticipatory postural adjustments during cutting manoeuvres in football and their consequences for knee injury risk
Guillaume Mornieux, Dominic Gehring, Patrick Fürst & Albert Gollhofer
Pages: 1255-1262
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2013.876508
Epidemiology of injuries in First Division Spanish football
Javier Noya Salces, Pedro M. Gómez-Carmona, Luis Gracia-Marco, Diego Moliner-Urdiales & Manuel Sillero-Quintana
Pages: 1263-1270
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.884720
Effects of age, maturity and body dimensions on match running performance in highly trained under-15 soccer players
Martin Buchheit & Alberto Mendez-Villanueva
Pages: 1271-1278
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.884721
Nutritional intake of elite football referees
Vitor Hugo Teixeira, Liliana Gonçalves, Tiago Meneses & Pedro Moreira
Pages: 1279-1285
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.887851
The polygenic profile of Russian football players
Emiliya S. Egorova, Alyona V. Borisova, Leysan J. Mustafina, Alina A. Arkhipova, Rashid T. Gabbasov, Anastasiya M. Druzhevskaya, Irina V. Astratenkova & Ildus I. Ahmetov
Pages: 1286-1293
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.898853
Exploring athletic identity in elite-level English youth football: a cross-sectional approach
Tom O. Mitchell, Mark Nesti, David Richardson, Adrian W. Midgley, Martin Eubank & Martin Littlewood
Pages: 1294-1299
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.898855
Exercise performance and cardiovascular health variables in 70-year-old male soccer players compared to endurance-trained, strength-trained and untrained age-matched men
Morten Bredsgaard Randers, Jesper L. Andersen, Jesper Petersen, Emil Sundstrup, Markus D. Jakobsen, Jens Bangsbo, Bengt Saltin & Peter Krustrup
Pages: 1300-1308
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.898857
Changes in repeated-sprint performance in relation to change in locomotor profile in highly-trained young soccer players
Martin Buchheit & Alberto Mendez-Villanueva
Pages: 1309-1317
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.918272
Acute responses of soccer match play on hip strength and flexibility measures: potential measure of injury risk
Darren J. Paul, George P. Nassis, Rodney Whiteley, Joao B. Marques, Dean Kenneally & Hakim Chalabi
Pages: 1318-1323
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.927069
Point-Counter-point
Multiple blood samples in elite soccer players. Is it worthwhile?
Mette Flindt Heisterberg, Jan Fahrenkrug & Jesper L. Andersen
Pages: 1324-1327
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.898859
Repeated monitoring of blood parameters for evaluating strain and overload in elite football players: is it justified?
Steffen Meister, Karen aus der Fünten & Tim Meyer
Pages: 1328-1331
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.927070