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Field-based Tests for Soccer Players

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This chapter presents a summary of a great variety of physical tests that can be implemented on both amateur and professional athletes from different sports. To give a practical reading of this chapter, all the physical test dimensions will be described in an order best suited to follow during a battery of tests. That is, the less metabolic demanding tests such as postural and mobility tests are the first ones, and the more fatiguing tests are being left to the end.

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  1. Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    Filipe Manuel Clemente

  2. Sports Science School of Rio Maior, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Rio Maior, Portugal

    Rafael Oliveira

  3. Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    Rui Silva

  4. Sports Science Department, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

    Zeki Akyildiz

  5. Physical Education and Sports Teaching Department, Kazim Karabekir Faculty of Education, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey

    Halil Ibrahim Ceylan

  6. Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Isabel I, Burgos, Spain

    Javier Raya González

  7. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences, Campus of Melilla, University of Granada, Melilla, Spain

    Francisco Tomás González Fernández

  8. University Institute of Maia—ISMAI, Maia, Portugal

    Rui Araújo

  9. Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, University of Coimbra—Research Unit for Sport and Physical Activity, Coimbra, Portugal

    Hugo Sarmento

  10. Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    Ricardo Lima

  11. Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    Bruno Silva

  12. Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    Sérgio Matos

  13. Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yung-Sheng Chen

  14. Faculty of Sport, Centre for Research, Education, Innovation and Intervention in Sport, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    José Afonso

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Clemente, F.M. et al. (2022). Characteristics of the Included Tests. In: Field-based Tests for Soccer Players. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03895-2_3

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