About the Authors

Alberto Mendez-Villanueva

jose.villanueva@aspire.qa

Affiliation Football Performance & Science Department, ASPIRE Academy, Doha, Qatar

Luis Suarez-Arrones

Affiliations Football Performance & Science Department, ASPIRE Academy, Doha, Qatar, Sports Department, Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Spain

Gil Rodas

Affiliation Medical Department, Futbol Club Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Per Tesch

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Richard Linnehan

Affiliation National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard Kreider

Affiliation Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Valter Di Salvo

Affiliations Football Performance & Science Department, ASPIRE Academy, Doha, Qatar, Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

GR was employed by a commercial company: FC Barcelona. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AMV RFG PT. Data curation: LSA RFG. Formal analysis: AMV LSA RFG. Funding acquisition: AMV RFG PT VDS. Investigation: LSA RFG. Methodology: AMV LSA GR RFG PT. Project administration: VDS. Resources: AMV LSA VDS. Supervision: AMV GR PT VDS. Validation: LSA RFG. Visualization: AMV LSA. Writing – original draft: AMV LSA. Writing – review & editing: AMV LSA GR RFG PT RL RK VDS.