Coaching a women's team

Football itself does not change: a few settings do. The risk of ACL rupture (2.8 times higher) and the prevention programme that halves it, load and the menstrual cycle, energy availability and iron, the growth of young female players, and the practical conditions that make players stay or leave. Every figure is sourced.

8 chapters · 31 min of content

• The cruciate ligament in women's football — 2.8 times more common, nine times out of ten with no contact to the knee: understand it to act on it.
• Knee prevention: the programme that has proven its worth — Five building blocks, twice a week, all season long: the protocol best supported by research.