Performance Analysis and Training Monitoring in Team Sports

Dear Colleagues,

Interest in investigating team sports has grown in recent decades in response to a substantial increase of the demand at professional, nonprofessional (competitive), and amateur level.

In addition to the mere competitive scope, the implications of which on players’ fitness are continuously documented, the regular practice of team sports can also be associated with improved health and social outcome at all ages. Children involved in team sports tend to be more physically fit and to have greater involvement in physical activity across time compared to their uninvolved peers. Older adults have been shown to receive many benefits on psychological health and quality of life, in addition to the positive effects of the physical activity, by regular practice of team sports.

Furthermore, considering the social nature of participation, team sports can be seen also as nonlinear dynamical systems where, thanks to the ceaseless development of tracked positional data (i.e., video analysis, GPS, inertial motion sensors, etc.), there is an increasing interest in studying how players and teams interact during competition.

This Special Issue of the Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology will also encourage authors on addressing the existing gaps on the available knowledge between the main team sports (i.e., soccer, basketball, rugby) and the rest.

Topics may cover but not be limited to the following research areas:

• Match analysis and game observation system;
• Tactical performance and players’ behavior;
• Quantifying movement demands;
• Monitoring team sports performance and training load;
• Measuring physiological and metabolic demands.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Tessitore
Guest Editor

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