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The Critical Role of Sleep in Professional Athletic Performance

Posted on by Ben Bradley

For professional athletes, optimal performance hinges on several key factors: training, nutrition, recovery, and, often overlooked, sleep. Scientific research consistently highlights the importance of sleep as a cornerstone of physical and mental recovery, underscoring its role in enhancing athletic performance and reducing injury risk. Sleep and Physical Recovery Sleep is an active recovery process that […]

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The Evolution of the Modern Day Centre-Back: From Baresi and Beckenbauer to Ruben Dias

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Blogpost written by Hugo Ferreira former performance Analyst at SC Braga and AFC Bournemouth. Over the last few decades, our generation of Football passionate people have grown watching astonishing centre-backs who still fill us with nostalgia when we travel down memory lane to past international tournaments or UEFA Champions league finals back in the 90s […]

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Research Reports – Relative age and maturation selection biases in academy Football.

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Research Reports brings you lead authors from published research articles so you can hear all about the research, key aims and take home messages straight from the source. These short, easily digestible videos make it simple and easy to understand the work and its context. This Research Report is by Megan Hill who discusses her […]

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