EXCITING NEW RESEARCH Do you want to know the Contextualised Physical Demands of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™? If so, see below. It was an honour to conduct this Official FIFA Physical Analysis, which is the first of its kind! It comes in eight parts below:

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Excited to be invited to another excellent football event! I will be a speaker at the BDFL's International Trainer Congress in Leipzig. I will unpack the evolving trends in match demands & why that’s important! Thanks Prof Oliver Hoener & Christoph Pinke for the kind invite.

Well done Dr Dennis Lüdin on producing this research brief linked to ‘Getting agreement between scouts’. The link to the video and text is below: Thanks for your research contribution Dennis

The topic I’m covering @footballmed will hopefully underpin a large number of other sessions, as it will detail the intensification of match demands in both domestic & international competitions across the men’s and women’s game. #ISOK25

Coming Soon! Interested in developing agility in your players? Then tune into this session when we release this on the FIFA website. Warren Young covers how you can develop all facets of agility (e.g. physical, technical & cognitive). Our Q&A delved very deep into this subject.

Thanks Oliver for your two contributions to our FIFA project. Part 1:�� Part 2: 

On Monday the full Isokinetic Conference Programme was released, i'm excited to present on the in-flux nature of football performance and what is evolving and how trends will potentially change in future. Thanks to the organisers for the kind invite, it should be a stellar event

Links to sources

Coming soon Part 1:  Part 2: Part 3: Part 4:

Always fascinated by the scatter between match running performances and physical tests, especially the complexities around the associations. One of my favourite papers here on reactive repeated intense actions by Dr Michele Di Mascio See below for paper:

Are declines in match running performance indicative of fatigue (reduced glycogen/CP or acidosis/K+ accumulation? Alternatively, do players employing conscious/subconscious pacing strategies during matches or are tactics the key? Always complex! See below:

Variation in match demands within and between positions is especially large due to a multitude of interplaying contextual factors. This makes it challenging to interpret and especially when trying translate to training recommendations. See Paper below.