Krutsch Volker, Grechenig Stephan, Loose Oliver, Achenbach Leonard, Zellner Johannes, Striegel Heiko, Alt Volker, Weber Johannes, Braun Markus, Gerling Stephan, Krutsch Werner
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, General Hospital Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany.
Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Open Access J Sports Med. 2020 Aug 7;11:123-131. doi: 10.2147/OAJSM.S251081. eCollection 2020.
Injury data of professional soccer players obtained from media reports are frequently used in scientific research, but the accuracy of such data is still unclear.
Injuries of professional soccer players of the German first and second league were documented by continuously screening media reports over one season (2015-2016). After the season, the validity of media-reported injuries was anonymously analyzed by the team physicians of 8 different soccer clubs.
A total of 255 injuries of 240 players of 8 professional soccer teams had been published online, of which 146 were confirmed by the team doctors as correct, yielding a rate of 57.3% of confirmed media-reported injuries. In addition, 92 injuries without media registration were detected and added to the online statistics, resulting in 347 injuries and an overall weak validity of media-based data of 42.1%. Statistical analysis showed that the validity of media-reported injury data depended on both the individual soccer club and the body site affected by injury: publications on knee injuries (78.2%) had a higher validity than those on foot injuries (46.2%), and publications on severe injuries had a higher validity (joint dislocation: 100%; ligament rupture: 82.9%; fracture: 73.3%) than those on minor injuries. Publications on specific severe soccer injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, had a validity of 100%.
Media-based injury data were only valid for a few severe injury types such as ACL injuries. In daily soccer routine and scientific research, media-based data should thus only be used in combination with specific criteria or verification processes.
从媒体报道中获取的职业足球运动员伤病数据常用于科学研究，但此类数据的准确性仍不明确。
通过持续筛选一个赛季（2015 - 2016年）的媒体报道，记录德国甲级和乙级联赛职业足球运动员的伤病情况。赛季结束后，8家不同足球俱乐部的队医对媒体报道伤病的有效性进行了匿名分析。
8支职业足球队的240名球员共255例伤病情况已在网上公布，其中146例经队医确认为准确，媒体报道伤病的确认率为57.3%。此外，还检测到92例未在媒体登记的伤病并添加到在线统计中，最终共有347例伤病，基于媒体数据的总体有效性较弱，为42.1%。统计分析表明，媒体报道伤病数据的有效性既取决于单个足球俱乐部，也取决于受伤的身体部位：关于膝伤的报道（78.2%）有效性高于足部损伤（46.2%），重伤报道的有效性（关节脱位：100%；韧带断裂：82.9%；骨折：73.3%）高于轻伤。关于特定严重足球伤病（如前交叉韧带[ACL]损伤）的报道有效性为100%。
基于媒体的伤病数据仅对少数严重伤病类型（如ACL损伤）有效。因此，在日常足球工作和科学研究中，基于媒体的数据应仅与特定标准或验证流程结合使用。
