The Faroe Islands COVID-19 Recreational Football Study: Player-to-Player Distance, Body-to-Body Contact, Body-to-Ball Contact and Exercise Intensity during Various Types of Football Training for Both Genders and Various Age Groups

Table 1

Types of touches during simulated match-play (SMP), small-sided games (SSG), and corona-modified training (CMT) as average of all groups (U9 boys (), U11 girls (), U14 boys (), young adult men (), and adult women ()), as well as average of all games.

Age group	Average all participant groups
Game type	CMT	SSG	SMP	Total average
Players ()	16	16	16	16
Time (min)	20	20	20	60
Total player-to-player touches	0	116	44	160
Front-front touches	0	11	4	15
Front-to-front % of total	0%	9%	10%	9%
Player-to-player touches/player	0.0	7.1	2.8	9.8
Touches/player/hour	0.0	21.3	8.3	29.5
Front-front touches/player/hour	0.0	2.0	0.8	2.8
Body-to-ball touches	0	21	22	42
Headers	0	7	5	12
Ball-to-hand	0	11	16	27
Body-to-ball touches/player	0.0	1.3	1.3	2.6
Body-to-ball touches/player/hour	0.0	3.8	4.0	7.9
Headers/player/hour	0.0	1.2	0.9	2.2
Ball-to-hand/player/hour	0.0	2.0	2.9	5.0
Player-to-player touches/player/minute	0.00	0.35	0.14	0.16
Front-front touches/player/minute	0.00	0.03	0.01	0.02