Does sprint and jump performance of football players from a Premier League academy change throughout the season?
- 02.09.2023
- Research
Erschienen in:
- Verfasst von
- Felipe Coimbra Meira
- Rodrigo de Azevedo Franke
- Diogo Leite da Costa
- Fabio Yuzo Nakamura
- Bruno Manfredini Baroni
- Erschienen in
- Sport Sciences for Health | Ausgabe 2/2024
Abstract
Purpose
The aim of this study was to investigate the sprint and jump performance throughout the season in young male players aged 13–18 years from a Premier League football (soccer) academy.
Methods
Participants were engaged in a 6-day weekly football training routine. Plyometric and sprint exercises were embedded in training sessions but did not follow a systematized program. Performance on 10-m and 30-m sprints, vertical and horizontal jumps were assessed at the beginning, middle, and end of competitive calendar along two consecutive seasons. This retrospective longitudinal study analyzed 94 players from under-14 to under-19 teams (56 players in both seasons and 38 in a single season; i.e., 150 player-seasons).
Results
Players had significant performance improvements along the season: 10-m sprint [p < 0.001, delta = − 0.06 s (− 2.93%), effect size (ES) = 0.60], 30-m sprint [p < 0.001, delta = − 0.11 s (− 2.46%), ES = 0.54], vertical jump [p = 0.005, delta = 1.84 cm (5.45%), ES = 0.37], and horizontal jump [p = 0.005, delta = 6.48 cm (2.86%), ES = 0.37]. Individual analyses on age categories denoted that significant performance improvements mostly occurred in under-14, under-15, and under-16 teams. Under-18 and under-19 teams had no significant increases in any performance test, while under-17 team had an increase only in the 30-m sprint test.
Conclusion
Regular football training routine (without systematized plyometric or sprint training) was able to enhance sprint and jump performance of footballers from under-14 to under-16 teams, but this training regime was insufficient to improve such abilities of older players (under-17 to under-19 teams).
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- Titel
- Does sprint and jump performance of football players from a Premier League academy change throughout the season?
- Verfasst von
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Felipe Coimbra Meira
Rodrigo de Azevedo Franke
Diogo Leite da Costa
Fabio Yuzo Nakamura
Bruno Manfredini Baroni
- Publikationsdatum
- 02.09.2023
- Verlag
- Springer Milan
- Erschienen in
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Sport Sciences for Health / Ausgabe 2/2024
Print ISSN: 1824-7490
Elektronische ISSN: 1825-1234 - DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-023-01112-5
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