Performance Analysis Challenges in Professional Football Practice

Chris Carling

2013

Abstract

Over recent years, the progressive bridging of the gap between sports science and applied football coaching practice has led to greater recognition of the need for and subsequent benefits of objective systematic processes for monitoring player performance in training and competition (Strudwick, 2013). The on-going assessment of performance in competition notably using performance analysis techniques such as match and time motion analyses provides opportunities for the design and prescription of evidence-based practice frameworks for optimising training and match preparation (James, 2006). Many professional clubs now formally employ performance analysts and sports scientists to provide factual and permanent records of events underpinning both individual and team technical, tactical and physical performance in competition. Innovative state-of-the-art computer software and video technologies are used to generate unprecedented masses of data to profile and benchmark match-play performance. Analysis of how teams and individuals perform in competition aids in identifying specific strengths and weakness and over a period of time can create a benchmark against which instances of future performance can be compared in order to pinpoint positive and negative trends in play (Carling and Court, 2012).

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Carling C. (2013). Performance Analysis Challenges in Professional Football Practice . In - PerSoccer, (icSPORTS 2013) ISBN , pages 0-0


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