Soccer Player Performance Testing: An Individual Assessment System for Speed, Strength, Training Load, and Reliable Retesting

Soccer Player Performance Testing

An Individual Assessment System for Speed, Strength, Training Load, and Reliable Retesting

By Martina Salazar

A stopwatch can tell you a player ran faster. It cannot tell you why, whether the change is real, or what to train next.

This practical guide gives coaches a disciplined way to turn individual soccer performance testing into decisions they can explain. Begin with a football problem, choose a relevant test, establish a reliable baseline, and judge the retest without confusing measurement noise with improvement.

Inside, you'll learn how to: - Build a useful football speed assessment using standardized 10-metre and 20-metre sprint protocols, sensible recovery, and clear records. - Run a 10 meter sprint test without changing the starting position or timing method halfway through the program. - Assess jumps, strength, planned changes of direction, and repeated efforts while respecting what each test can actually measure. - Use player load monitoring and athlete feedback to adjust training around matches, fatigue, and real life. - Apply retest reliability in sports through raw-trial analysis, standard error of measurement, and minimal detectable change. - Turn findings into individual soccer training plans with explicit training doses, review dates, and stop rules.

The book includes eight substantive chapters, 49 field laboratories, ten reference appendices, reproducible calculation examples, and a complete constructed player review. One case follows a wide defender from match-video observations through baseline sprint times, a six-week training block, retesting, and a cautious decision about what to do next.

You will also find a practical discussion of soccer strength and conditioning, youth safeguarding, privacy, professional boundaries, and how to keep a performance report understandable to the player it describes.

The methods are designed for coaches who value useful evidence more than expensive dashboards. Specialist equipment is explained where appropriate, and low-cost alternatives are described with their limits. Fictional examples are clearly labeled; no anonymous success stories are passed off as proof.

Measure what matters. Record what happened. Make the next training decision with your eyes open.

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E-bog: 16. oktober 2026