ABSTRACT
Introduction Technical performance attributes in soccer have been suggested to be variant across distinct playing positions (Rampinini et al., 2007) and understanding the essential attributes of a playing position can aid the design of training regimes by closely replicating the physical demands in competition (Di Salvo et al., 2007). Time-motion methods and analyses have much developed over time to increasingly provide more accurate and reliable measures of the physical demands in soccer match-play and training sessions (Bloomfield et al., 2007; Carling et al., 2008). however, as methods of motion analyses have improved, the findings from previous studies may no longer be an accurate representation of the physical demands between playing positions (Bloomfield et al., 2004), and recent and future work should be cautious in using their methodological framework.
