Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico,"Rome,Italy.
Performance and Research Department, Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Rome,Italy.
Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2022 Dec 15;18(1):55-60. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.2022-0200. Print 2023 Jan 1.
To examine the general perspectives of elite soccer players on the time course of perceived postmatch fatigue and the influence of away matches on subjective perceptions.
Adopting a cross-sectional study design, we invited 371 subjects from 14 top-division European clubs competing in the Belgian First Division A, English Premier League, French Ligue 1, Italian Serie A, Portuguese Primeira Liga, Russian Premier League, and Swiss Premier League to take part in a short survey on general issues relating to postmatch fatigue measurement and tracking in professional soccer.
Three hundred male professional soccer players completed the short questionnaire. For perceptions relevant to the time course of postmatch fatigue, two-thirds of respondents (67%) indicated higher postmatch fatigue perceived 2 days (48 h) after an official competition. Among these respondents, a higher proportion of answers was observed in wide midfielders (74%), attackers (74%), and central midfielders (68%). Approximately two-thirds of respondents (63%) indicated more than usual and much more than usual perceived postmatch fatigue following away matches.
For the first time, our investigation addressed practical aspects that remained unexplored and fundamental to the definition of an optimal player management process following a competition. From a practical standpoint, perspectives of individual elite soccer players substantiated the notion of implementing processes with dedicated recovery protocols within 48 hours postmatch and highlighted the need for differential strategies addressing the additional burden of away matches and travel.
探讨精英足球运动员对赛后疲劳感知时间进程的总体看法，以及客场比赛对主观感知的影响。
采用横断面研究设计，我们邀请了来自 14 家参加比利时甲级联赛、英超联赛、法甲、意甲、葡超、俄超和瑞士超级联赛的顶级欧洲俱乐部的 371 名球员参与一项关于赛后疲劳测量和跟踪的一般性问题的简短调查。
300 名男性职业足球运动员完成了简短的问卷。对于与赛后疲劳时间进程相关的感知，三分之二的受访者（67%）表示在正式比赛后 2 天（48 小时）后感到更高的赛后疲劳。在这些受访者中，中场球员（74%）、前锋（74%）和中场球员（68%）的比例更高。大约三分之二的受访者（63%）表示在客场比赛后感到比平时更多和多得多的赛后疲劳。
这是首次对一些未被探索的、对比赛后最佳球员管理过程定义至关重要的实际问题进行调查。从实际角度来看，个别精英足球运动员的观点证实了在赛后 48 小时内实施专门恢复方案的想法，并强调需要制定针对客场比赛和旅行额外负担的差异化策略。
