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Thank you to all our followers over several years. This account will be closing on 26th March and we ask that you follow us on @LJMUSportSci on Instagram and LinkedIn where you will continue to hear about our work in the field.
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New Research: Missing pieces, new patterns: the impact of association football international call-ups on team offensive and defensive performance indicators frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #Psychology
New: Data analytics in football by @SigridOlthof & @jessejdavis1. Three themes: 1.Overview computational approaches (AI/ML) in tactics; 2.Highlight new directions for research; 3.Discuss options to foster collabs between sport+computational scientists/@LJMUSportSci @DTAI_KULeuven
Read the accompanying article of this commentary here:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
"Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: computational approaches to tactics" by Sigrid Olthof & Jesse Davis
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🚨New publication: The role of priming videos on tactical, creative and physical behaviour during small-sided games in youth football🎓⚽️
✍️Diogo Coutinho, @B_V_Goncalves, Sara Santos, @rafaballesterr, @DrAndreRoca, @BrunoFTravassos
🤓frontiersin.org/journals/psy… /@LJMUSportSci
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🧠 New research led by Diogo Coutinho shows how video-based priming can influence players’ tactical, technical, and creative behaviors in football.
Valuable insights for coaches and practitioners! 👇
frontiersin.org/journals/psy…
ALT https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1553561/full
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The importance of pitch sizes ⚽
As a sport scientist at Liverpool John Moores University, @SigridOlthof's research has made a lasting impact on the sport.
Ross and Sigrid discuss the importance of considering pitch sizes 🤝
open.spotify.com/episode/3UK…
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New: Coaches’ perspectives of the use of small-sided games in the professional soccer training environment.
Research on small-sided games is growing fast, but there's limited (scientific) insight into how professional soccer coaches use them in training
🤓jkes.eu/article/549610/en
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Wrapping up a great week in the @LJMUSportSci labs: third-year Science & Football students making strides in working with technology for speed and agility testing in the lab and applied setting. Next steps are analysing and interpreting the data⚽️🤝📊
Latest article from @pmannix18 Prof Doc candidate @ljmufootball @LJMUSportSci "The evolution of the talent pathway in Major League Soccer" 🇺🇸
doi.org/10.1080/14660970.202…
Great to see our students enjoying induction week @LJMUSportSci @LJMU
Day 3 SF induction, coding on @HudlAnalysis Sportscode and learning about and analysts role @LukeBenstead @AlexScanlon @LJMUFootball @LJMUSportSci @LJMU
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✨Kicking off the new year with a great group of new @LJMUSportSci Science & Football students✨: playing (walking🚶♂️) football, using @catapultsports, and starting with video analysis. All fun and games @LJMUFootball ⚽️🤝🎓🤝📊
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Very much looking forward to presenting at the German Exercise Science and Training Conference. Thanks for the invite @Brina1812 & @SpoMedSb. Will be a great session on football tactics, technology, and data with @MaaikeVanRoy, @StefanAltmann3, and @BrunoFTravassos⚽️🤝📊 #GEST25
Meet Dr @SigridOlthof who will be participating in the invited session “Football tactics through the lens of data and technology” IN #gest25
Sigrid Olthof is a sport scientist and lecturer in Performance Analysis and Analytics at Liverpool John Moores University (UK). 1/6
New opportunity with @NorwichCityFC @LJMUSportSci @LJMU if interested in goalkeeper research @JobsinSportSci #jobsinsportscience
Great opportunity to work and do embedded goalkeeper research with @NorwichCityFC @LJMUFootball. Click link to apply 👇 careers.canaries.co.uk/job/5…
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Pleased to finally get this paper finished and published, ‘On-field #rehabilitation in #football: Current practice and perceptions. A survey of the @premierleague and @EFL’.
tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.…
Thanks again to my supervisory team and everyone who took part in the survey 🙏🏻
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Looking forward to working with the successful candidate on this fully funded PhD Game Model project. @LJMUFootball
Exciting opportunities to engage in cutting edge research and innovation #femalefootball #DataScience with @McrInstSport & @ManUtd
Closing date 19.1.24
mmu.ac.uk/research/research-…
mmu.ac.uk/research/research-…
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Exciting opportunities to engage in cutting edge research and innovation #femalefootball #DataScience with @McrInstSport & @ManUtd
Closing date 19.1.24
mmu.ac.uk/research/research-…
mmu.ac.uk/research/research-… – at Partington, England
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🆕New publication #OpenAccess📖:
👉High-intensity accelerations and decelerations in male football⚽️
👉Effect of playing position, match location, and opposition standard
🔗termedia.pl/Playing-position…
@BiolSport @LJMUFootball @LJMUSportSci
✏️@benjaminryan @wonwoo_ju @ZmijewskiPiotr
🆕This study aimed to examine the impact of playing position, match location, and opposition standard on team and individual high-intensity efforts (ACC / DEC) in #football ⚽️🏃♂️
✍️Ryland Morgans, Daeeun Kweon, @benjaminryan et al.
🔓#OpenAccess🔗 termedia.pl/Playing-position…
ALT Morgans R, Kweon D, Ryan B, et al. Playing position and match location affect the number of high-intensity efforts more than the quality of the opposition in elite football players. Biology of Sport. 2024;41(3):29-37. doi:10.5114/biolsport.2024.133669.
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🆕This study aimed to examine the impact of playing position, match location, and opposition standard on team and individual high-intensity efforts (ACC / DEC) in #football ⚽️🏃♂️
✍️Ryland Morgans, Daeeun Kweon, @benjaminryan et al.
🔓#OpenAccess🔗 termedia.pl/Playing-position…
ALT Morgans R, Kweon D, Ryan B, et al. Playing position and match location affect the number of high-intensity efforts more than the quality of the opposition in elite football players. Biology of Sport. 2024;41(3):29-37. doi:10.5114/biolsport.2024.133669.
Nice work Sam. Paper 3/4 from @LJMUSportSci 🚵PhD. One to go for a full house.
Amazing to share this article on #washout in #coach #education. Big thanks to co-authors for believing in this venture.
Thanks also @QualiSEH for a genuinely fantastic review process. See here:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
