The intermittent approach to soccer games

Approaches and level of analysis of the physical demonstration of professional soccer players. Level 5 (part 6).

It arrives the moment to apply this intermittent approach to the analysis of soccer games: in this case, I show you the average data from the analysis performed with a spanish professional soccer team, in which we get data from all the friendly games performed during that pre-season and in-season (11 in total).

We have used the data obtained of all the players that participated in a complete 45 min of each game.
Logically this approach has its own limits (only 45 min, friendly games, preseason, in-season using mainly players "non-starters" ...) but it's a good reference to take in account.

Another big issue that we have commented in previous posts is referred to the GPS system; as you know, technology limits or guides us in a way ... but we have to try to use it in our direction ...
We have use 10 units from a competitive brand in that years (2007-2008), that unfortunately has not been able to adapt at the level required ... A little demonstration - confirmation of it is the paper of Buchheit et al. 2013 :http://martin-buchheit.net/2013/08/20/monitoring-accelerations-with-gps-in-football-time-to-slow-down/

Anyway, you can see here a little but important demo of how to apply the intermittent approach to the analysis of soccer games, and the data obtained as a reference ...

Hope you enjoy,