Movement profile behavior in a professional women's football club during competition, considering various contextual variables
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https://doi.org/10.47197/retos.v65.111287Keywords:
GPS , monitoring, profile movement, women´s footballAbstract
Introduction and objective: Women's football is constantly growing, and technological advances in training processes are becoming increasingly frequent. Therefore, research must be precise and include more variables to identify the ideal workload for each athlete. The objective of this study was to analyse the behaviour of the FMP of a professional women’s football club during competition, according to certain contextual variables.
Methodology: The study was observational and the sample consisted of a professional women’s football team in Colombia. Twenty league matches were analysed, covering all competition phases. A descriptive analysis of all quantitative variables was conducted to calculate central tendency (mean) and dispersion (standard deviation) measures, allowing for the observation of data distribution and variability.
Results and conclusions: Players showed variability in the duration of activities according to position and context: in FMPDynamicHighDur the mean was 0.1227 and in FMPRunningHighDur 0.0458. Midfielders had greater fluctuations in away games, while forwards and defenders showed a more stable trend. Finally, midfielders and defenders exhibited greater variability in away performance, highlighting the importance of adapting training and recovery according to position and home/ away context.
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