Effects of a six-week period of congested match play on plasma volume variations, hematological parameters, training workload and physical fitness in elite soccer players

• Karim Saidi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Movement, Sport, Health and Sciences Laboratory (M2S), University of Rennes 2, Rennes, France, Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar-Said, University of Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Hassane Zouhal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: urs.granacher@uni-potsdam.de(UG); hassane.zouhal@univ-rennes2.fr(HZ)

  Affiliation Movement, Sport, Health and Sciences Laboratory (M2S), University of Rennes 2, Rennes, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6743-6464

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• Fatma Rhibi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Movement, Sport, Health and Sciences Laboratory (M2S), University of Rennes 2, Rennes, France, Laboratory of Biomonitoring of the Environment, Faculty of Science of Bizerte, University of Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia

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• Jed M. Tijani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar-Said, University of Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Daniel Boullosa,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Catholic University of Brasilia, Taguatinga, Brazil

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• Amel Chebbi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Anthony C. Hackney,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Exercise & Sport Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Urs Granacher ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: urs.granacher@uni-potsdam.de(UG); hassane.zouhal@univ-rennes2.fr(HZ)

  Affiliation Division of Training and Movement Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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• Benoit Bideau ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BB and ABA are co-last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Movement, Sport, Health and Sciences Laboratory (M2S), University of Rennes 2, Rennes, France

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• Abderraouf Ben Abderrahman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BB and ABA are co-last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar-Said, University of Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia

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