Is Travel Associated With Match Performance in Elite North American Professional Soccer? An Exploratory Study.

Purpose: Travel fatigue impacts cognitive and physiologic systems, but its association with elite soccer match performance is unclear. In this retrospective observational study, we aimed to explore the association between travel and match outcomes in elite North American soccer.

Methods: Travel data and match outcomes (team points or goals scored and conceded) and physical performance outcomes from 26 elite professional soccer teams and their players were analyzed (148 matches [team-based data] and 1252 player matches from 297 players; age 22.

Functional Movement Screen total score does not present a gestalt measure of movement quality in youth athletes.

We aimed to evaluate the internal consistency and factor structure of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) in youth athletes and quantify differences between individual task score at different stages of maturation. FMS and anthropometric variables were measured in 144 youth athletes (96 female, 48 male). Biological maturation was categorised as before- (<-0.