Players' Services, World Players' Union (FIFPro), Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
School of Medicine (FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence), St. Marianna University, Kawasaki, Japan
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Gouttebarge
V, Aoki
H. Lifespan Perspective of Professional Footballers’ Health. Asian J Sports Med. 2014;5(4):e93520. https://doi.org/10.5812/asjsm.23813.
Abstract
From the last decade of the twentieth century, professional football has become a transnational global business in which financial profits are as important as sports successes (1). Being a full occupational category, professional football relies on a diversity of stakeholders including among others players, clubs, (inter)national governing bodies, sponsors and sport ministries (1).