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Soccer is renowned for its high pace, intense physical demands, and need for tactical acumen and technical prowess. However, one of the most critical factors affecting player performance and often overlooked in injury prevention is fatigue. Joshua Smith uncovers how fatigue influences player performance and injury risk.
Kyrgyzstan’s Valery Kichin celebrates scoring their first goal. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev
Understanding how fatigue influences injury risk is essential for players, coaches, and medical staff. Fatigue impacts performance and significantly increases the likelihood of sustaining injuries(1). Injury causation, or the risk thereof, occurs along a continuum, beginning with specific risk factors for injury and then their interaction with an inciting event, which leads to the mechanism of injury (see figure 1).
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