VII Congresso Internazionale – XXVIII Convegno Nazionale AIPAC Training Load and Recovery in Football

ANALYSIS OF EXTERNAL LOAD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCCER SMALL-SIDED GAMES PLAYED WITH WILDCARD PLAYERS Cofano G.1, Traficante P. 1, Sannicandro I. 1,2 1 Professional soccer fitness coach FIGC; 2 Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, University of Foggia, Italy

Background The research is oriented to understand and analyze different ball exercises (SSG) with wildcard players (WP) that are carried out during the training sessions (Castellano et al.,2016; Sanchez-Sanchez et al.,2017,2018).

Aims The aim of study is to analyze two SSG formats with WP and goalkeepers (GK).

Methods N°12 professional soccer players (24.7±3.9years, 78.4±4.2kg, 182.9±4.5cm) performed 5vs5+2GK+6WP (Fig.1) and in 6vs6+2GK+6WP (Fig. 2) (60x35m) and were monitored with GPS (GPEXE® SYSTEM, EXELIOsrl, Udine, Italy) at 18.18Hz during 4x3'(Rec. 1'). The parameters analyzed were: total distance, maximum speed, maximum power, distance at moderate (14.50-19.90km/h) and high intensity (19.90-25.20km/h), distance at high (20-55W/Kg) and at maximum power (>55W/Kg).

Results The results show that 5vs5+2GK+6WP produces higher values in the maximum speed (26,3±1,1 vs 23,1±0,8; p<0.0005), maximum power (86,6±13,1 vs 71,1±10,6; p<0.0005), distance at moderate (302,3±59,8 vs 221,5±75,8; p<0.01) and high intensity (92,2±21,1 vs 33,3±22,1; p<0.0005), maximum power (34,6±7 vs 11,3±8; p<0.0005) than 6vs6+2GK+6WP. No significant differences were detected for total distance (1658,4±101,7 vs 1603,8±178,5) and distance at high power (420,9±45,6 vs 355,2±104,9).

Conclusions This study is the first one that has been concerned with analyzing the external load imposed by the 5vs5 and 6vs6 formats with 6WP and GK. The results show that the 5vs5 WP produces significantly higher values compared to 6vs6, showing that in terms of intensity they are completely different. The different exercise intensities produced by two SSG formats, allow to organize the training sessions in the weekly microcycle.

References Castellano J., Silva P., Usabiaga O., Barreira D. (2016) The Influence of Scoring Targets and Outer-Floaters on Attacking and Defending Team Dispersion, Shape and Creation of Space During Small-Sided Soccer Games J Human Kinetics 51: 153-163 Sanchez-Sanchez J., Hernández D., Casamichana D., Martínez-Salazar C., Ramirez-Campillo R., Sampaio J. (2017) Heart Rate, Technical Performance, and Session-RPE in Elite Youth Soccer Small-Sided Games Played With Wildcard Players J Strength Cond Res 31(10): 2678-2685 Sanchez-Sanchez J., Ramirez-Campillo R., Carretero M., Martín V., Hernández D., Nakamura F.Y. (2018, in press) Soccer small-sided games activities vary according to the interval regime and their order of presentation within the session J Human Kinetics

Presentato al: VII Congresso Internazionale – XXVIII Convegno Nazionale AIPAC – Firenze 28 Maggio 2018 contact: giachy_86@hotmail.it

Fig. 1: 5vs5 + 2GK + 6WP Fig. 2: 6vs6 + 2GK + 6 WP