Vasilis Kanaras

• PhD Student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Football is a sport in which athletes perform many movements using one of their legs, which is characterized as dominant. This differentiation in usage often creates asymmetries between the limbs, which has been noted to be related to the occurrence of injuries as well as negative effects on performance. To assess these asymmetries, vertical jump t...

The purpose of this study was to (a) correlate the weekly external training load with the game running performance in season microcycles and (b) specify the optimal training/game ratio of the weekly external load in elite youth soccer players. The total distance (TD), the high-speed running distance (HSRD) (19.8–25.2 km/h), the ZONE6 distance (>25....

The aim of this study was twofold: (a) to examine the differences on physical indexes between players of different playing positions and (b) to reveal the correlations between their physical parameters and the running profile within the weekly microcycles. The subjects (n = 44) were separated into five positions: central defenders (n = 7), wide def...

The sprint performance on natural and artificial grass of 5th generation was assessed. Sixty eight young male soccer players, which were divided in two groups according to their age [children (n=36; 12.1±0.5y) and adolescents (n=32; 14.2±0.4y)], performed 30-m sprint tests with and without handling the ball on natural and artificial grass. The perf...