The footballers' global representative body, FIFPro, will track player health across a new 10-year research study. Starting with 200 footballers aged the first years from Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, the analysis will monitor the mental, musculoskeletal, neurocognitive and cardiovascular health of the players towards the end of their careers and into 27-29 of their retirement. This is a critical period in a footballer's life but has never been researched in such comprehensive detail. FIFPro intends to identify significant declines and the research is intended to help develop measures to prevent and cure them in the future.
The footballers' global representative body, FIFPro, will track player health across a new 10-year research study. Starting with 200 footballers aged 27-29 from Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, the analysis will monitor the mental, musculoskeletal, neurocognitive and cardiovascular health of the players towards the end of their careers and into the first years of their retirement. This is a critical period in a footballer's life but has never been researched in such comprehensive detail. FIFPro intends to identify significant declines and the research is intended to help develop measures to prevent and cure them in the future.