Football Performance II: New Goals for Success

The beautiful game is played in over 200 countries worldwide. The last FIFA World Cup boasted viewing figures of 715 million people making it far and away the most popular sporting event in human history ever. FIFA estimates that more than 300 million people now play football worldwide, and over a billion regularly watch it on TV. But, until now, there has been a massive gulf between the training know-how and match-winning secrets used by the professional few and those available to the rest of us. Not surprisingly, more scientific research than ever is being focused on the game. After all, with your average UK Premiership footballer taking home a basic annual salary of 640,000, and transfer fees for leading players now running high into millions, there s more pressure than ever to perform. But, until know, the benefits of this research has been kept as the closely-guarded secret of an elite few. Professional club managers, and national football governing bodies, are desperate to gain a performance advantage over their opponents. In the last eighteen months alone a number of important research projects have been conducted in the UK, France and elsewhere and their findings circulated to those in the know . They contain invaluable (but costly) insights into football training and conditioning techniques, injury prevention and rehabilitation, match-day nutrition, and more. Finally you can read all about these new performance secrets in our brand new football special report -- Football Performance new goals for success. And you won't need to invest thousands of pounds into a team of sports science researchers! This latest addition to our Peak Performance series of practical workbooks is an essential successor to our first football workbook, published early last year