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 2

Types of touches during simulated match-play (SMP) and small-sided games (SSG) for U9 boys (), U11 girls (), U14 boys (n = 51), young men (), and recreational females ().

Age group	U9 B	U9 B	U11 G	U11 G	U14 B	U14 B	YM	YM	RF	RF
Game type	SSG	SMP	SSG	SMP	SSG	SMP	SSG	SMP	SSG	SMP
Players ()	17	17	15	15	15	15	23	23	12	12
Time (min)	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20
Total player-to-player touches	98	55	105	56	96	45	170	25	80	49
Front-front touches	7	10	9	5	7	2	15	0	14	6
Front-to-front % total	7%	18%	9%	10%	7%	6%	9%	0%	17%	12%
Player-to-player touches/player	6.0	3.3	7.0	3.7	6.4	3.0	7.4	1.1	6.7	4.0
Touches/player/hour	18.1	10.0	20.9	11.2	19.1	8.9	22.2	3.3	20.1	12.1
Front-front touches/player/hour	1.2	1.8	1.9	1.1	1.4	0.5	2.0	0.0	3.6	1.2
Body-to-ball touches	24	30	43	31	9	22	15	19	15	1
Headers	8	5	1	1	4	9	10	8	10	0
Ball-to-hand	15	25	40	29	3	10	0	11	0	1
Body-to-ball touches/player	1.5	1.9	3.0	2.2	0.5	1.1	0.7	0.8	1.3	0.1
Body-to-ball touches/player/hour	4.5	5.6	8.9	6.5	1.4	3.4	2.0	2.5	3.8	0.3
Headers/player/hour	1.5	1.0	0.1	0.1	0.6	1.3	1.3	1.0	2.5	0.0
Ball-to-hand/player/hour	2.8	4.6	8.3	6.1	0.5	1.6	0.0	1.4	0.0	0.3
Player-to-player touches/player/minute	0.30	0.17	0.36	0.19	0.24	0.12	0.37	0.05	0.33	0.20
Front-front touches/player/minute	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.00	0.06	0.02