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Severe Injuries of Former Portuguese Football Players: a Post-Career Burden?
Teixeira, Eduardo; Silva, Carlos; Romero, Félix; Miguel, Mauro; Vicente, António; Teixeira, Eduardo Filipe; de Lima e Cunha Hopffer Romero, Félix Luís: Background/Objectives: Football players have a high injury risk due to the physical demands of their profession, which can negatively affect their quality of life (QoL) in the long term. The aim of this study is to characterize the severe injuries that former Portuguese football players suffered throughout their professional careers and investigate the resulting impacts on the physical domain of QoL after ret...
The professional careers of former portuguese football players: a sociodemograp...
António Vicente; Teixeira, Eduardo Filipe; de Lima e Cunha Hopffer Romero, Félix Luís; da Conceição Miguel, Mauro; Silva, CarlosIntroduction: The study is aimed to identify sociodemographic and professional characteristics related to the careers of former Portuguese football players. Methodology: The sample consisted of 84 Portuguese former players (48.8 ± 8.2 years old) with at least 8 years of professional experience, who finished their careers between 1988 and 2018. Quantitative data was collected from a validated semi-structure inte...
The Quality of Life of Former Portuguese Football Players
Teixeira, Eduardo; Silva, Carlos; Romero, Félix; Costa, João Paulo; Vicente, António; Silva, Carlos; de Lima e Cunha Hopffer Romero, Félix LuísBackground: The demands of playing professional football can have an impact on an individual’s quality of life (QoL), which may remain into retirement. Given limited evidence exists regarding the QoL in former football players, this study aimed to assess QoL among Portuguese former players according to career duration, career end period, competitive level, tactical-positional status, international status, acade...
The quality of life of former portuguese football players
Eduardo Teixeira; Carlos Silva; Félix Romero; João Paulo Costa; António Vicente; Teixeira, Eduardo Filipe; Silva, CarlosBackground: The demands of playing professional football can have an impact on an individual’s quality of life (QoL), which may remain into retirement. Given limited evidence exists regarding the QoL in former football players, this study aimed to assess QoL among Portuguese former players according to career duration, career end period, competitive level, tactical-positional status, international status, acade...