The Football Association

Head Acceleration Event Probabilities During Standardised Contact Drills in Academy Men's Rugby League

ABSTRACT This study investigated head acceleration event (HAE) probabilities between common contact‐drills in rugby league. Fifteen professional male academy players participated in three training sessions, completing standardised contact‐drills while wearing custom‐fitted iMGs,...

Anthropometric PHV-prediction models versus skeletal age in elite Chinese U12–U13 male soccer players: a cross-sectional study

Assessing biological maturity in youth soccer helps reduce maturity-related selection bias. Anthropometric peak height velocity (PHV) prediction models provide non-invasive, repeatable tools for maturity monitoring, but their performance relative to skeletal-age (SA) indicators r...