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Description

The Science of Football examines the world's most popular sport as a demanding performance system. It explains how players run, accelerate, kick, scan, decide, recover, and cooperate inside the tactical structure of a team. The book connects physiology, biomechanics, tactical theory, match analysis, psychology, sports medicine, youth development, women's football, and emerging technology. It is written for readers who want an academic but practical understanding of modern football. Rather than reducing the game to statistics or romantic language, this book shows how scientific knowledge can deepen appreciation of football. The goal is to make performance visible: why high-speed running matters, why tactical spacing changes physical demand, why injury prevention requires neuromuscular preparation, and why data must be interpreted with context.