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. 2013 Aug;47(12):803-6.
doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-092124. Epub 2013 Jun 27.

Implementation of the FIFA 11+ football warm up program: how to approach and convince the Football associations to invest in prevention

Mario Bizzini  1 , Astrid Junge, Jiri Dvorak
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Implementation of the FIFA 11+ football warm up program: how to approach and convince the Football associations to invest in prevention

Mario Bizzini et al. Br J Sports Med. 2013 Aug.
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Abstract

In the last decade, injury prevention has received a lot of attention in sports medicine, and recently international sports-governing bodies, such as the International Olympic Committee, declared the protection of the athletes' health as one of their major objectives. In 1994, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) established its Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) with the aim 'to prevent football injuries and to promote football as a health-enhancing leisure activity, improving social behaviour'. Since then, FIFA has developed and evaluated its injury-prevention programmes 'The 11' and 'FIFA 11+' have demonstrated in several scientific studies how simple exercise-based programmes can decrease the incidence of injuries in amateur football players. This paper summarises 18 years of scientific and on-field work in injury prevention by an international sports federation (FIFA), from formulating the aim to make its sport safer to the worldwide dissemination of its injury-prevention programme in amateur football.

Keywords: Implementation; Injury Prevention; Soccer.

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Eleven steps to implement ‘FIFA 11+’.
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The countries in the dark colour are the ones whose coaches attended a ‘FIFA 11+’ instructor course (2008–2012).
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