Systemic Degree of Perturbation of Plasma Markers Reveals Cumulative Biological Stress Across the Competitive Season in Professional Soccer Players

Deivide Oliveira-de-Souza, Diego Viana Gomes, Juliano Spineti, Antônio Pedro Farias Neto, Humberto Miranda, Bruna Karoline Lima Piazera, Ricardo Luzardo, Artur T. L. Queiroz, Beatriz Barreto-Duarte, Bruno B. Andrade · 2026

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Deivide Oliveira-de-Souza leads a team tracking in 2026 how a packed match schedule strains the bodies of professional soccer players across a full season. Modern fixtures pile high-intensity games close together with little rest, taxing many body systems at once. The team followed players through one competitive season, drawing repeated blood samples for chemical, blood-cell, and metabolic markers.

To read the whole picture at once, they used a perturbation score that measures how far a player's combined markers drift from a healthy baseline. The drift grew steadily as the season's load piled up, showing strain that single tests would miss. Clubs could use such a score to spot players sliding toward breakdown and rest them before injury or illness strikes, rather than reacting after the fact.

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CREATORDeivide Oliveira-de-Souza, Diego Viana Gomes, Juliano Spineti, Antônio Pedro Farias Neto, Humberto Miranda, Bruna Karoline Lima Piazera, Ricardo Luzardo, Artur T. L. Queiroz, Beatriz Barreto-Duarte, Bruno B. Andrade
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE53475
LICENSEhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13615059

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