Football-Related Injury and Health Problems

Dear Colleagues

In the last decade, the game and training of football has changed significantly. The advances made by science in its different areas contributed greatly to these changes, mainly with data from the electoral contexts. With this Special Issue, we intend to continue on this path of bringing scientific evidence to contribute to the continuous improvement of the game of football, in order to have better games, with higher quality in training and with well-prepared players, through studies in different areas, and in different contexts, from professional clubs to smaller clubs and from national- to regional-level teams. Our goal contributes to avoiding any kind of healthcare issues such as injury or illness, by bringing and giving the tools to help the coaches to prepare the different teams at any level of intervention, which can also promote the evolution of football at all competitive levels.

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to provide information on load/intensity monitoring, sports performance, and to show how different tools can be used to better prepare athletes physically and allow them to have a healthier physical performance. The present Special Issue will accept original research and systematic reviews from different areas in football and other sports. We hypothesize that this Special Issue will generate relevant information for football and several other sports to increase performance levels and to avoid healthcare issues.

Dr. Nuno Loureiro
Dr. Rafael Oliveira
Dr. Fernando Santos
Guest Editors

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