A desire of Pro Football Support even before the development of AMAT Performance has always been to try and expand the knowledge base around athletic development of young players through extensive research. Over the past 6 seasons we have been fortunate to work with a large amount of elite young players at category 2 & 3 professional football club academies. This has translated into the research papers and conference presentations detailed below. Research will always be at the forefront of AMAT Performance and we are working hard towards the future papers also detailed below.
Ric Lovell, Chris Towlson, Guy Parkin, Matt Portas, Roel Vaeyens, Stephen Cobley. Soccer Player Characteristics in English Lower-League Development Programmes: The Relationships between Relative Age, Maturation, Anthropometry and Physical Fitness. Plus one; 10 (9); e0137238
Portas MD, Parkin, G, Roberts, J, Batterham, AM. Maturational effect on Functional Movement Screen score in adolescent soccer players. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport DOI:10.1016/j.jsams.2015.12.001
European College Sport Science Congress Barcelona 2013. Portas MD, Parkin, G, Roberts, J, Batterham, AM. The effect of maturity on the Functional Movement Screen in elite adolescent soccer players
World Conference on Science in Soccer Portland 2014. Portas MD, Parkin, G, Roberts, J, Batterham, AM. The effect of neuromuscular training on FMS score in adolescent soccer players.
Reliability of a novel movement screen tool for assessment of athletic performance
The effect of neuromuscular training on FMS score in adolescent soccer players.