Physical development and decline (Part 1).

Pre-season.

All six players reported back for training with no injuries or specific cause for concern. As you would expect after an end of season break the profiles of each player were largely full of red arrows indicating a losses in many of their attributes (the exception to this being Rogério who had maintained the vast majority of his attributes and even improved on three of them).

 

Physical development and decline (Introduction).

Today marks the start of a new series of articles which will take a look at six of my first-team squad over the course of an entire season. This will include looking at the condition the players are in when they return from the short end of season break in Brazil and at the end of each subsequent month. The idea of the project is to look at how the players’ attributes change over the season and hopefully to assess how much impact injuries, training and the number of matches played can make on the players.