Handbook of Soccer Match Analysis : A Systematic Approach to Improving Performance

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Appealing to a wide audience, this ground-breaking handbook takes an in-depth look at soccer match analysis, highlighting the latest in match analysis research and the innovative technologies now being used by professional soccer clubs around the world. Bridging the gap between research, theory and practice, these methods can be used by coaches, sport scientists and fitness coaches to assess and improve:styles of play, technical ability and physical fitnessobjective performance feedback to playersthe development of specific training routinesuse of available notation software, video analysis and manual systemsunderstanding of current academic research in soccer notational analysis.This is the first book to focus exclusively on football, and is based on the authors' extensive experience in academic and professional match analysis.