NMR-Based Metabolomics Reveals Position-Specific Signatures Associated with Physical Demands in Professional Soccer Players.

ABSTRACT: Background: Soccer's varied physical demands require meticulous load monitoring, which is now being advanced by combining GPS for external metrics and NMR-based metabolomics for internal metabolic profiling. This study aimed to investigate how player position influences the metabolomic profile (as a marker of internal load) under known match effort (external load). Methods: This was a longitudinal observational descriptive study involving 12 professional soccer players from the U-20 São Paulo Football Club, enrolled in the 2022 São Paulo State Under-20 Football Championship. Players were monitored across six matches during the season, culminating in a total of 49 individual match observations from those players (4-2-3-1 formation: Central Defenders [CD], n = 9; Full Ba

SUBMITTER: Dos Santos SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12650136 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature