Índices de aptidão funcional em jogadores de futebol da Seleção Nacional da Jamaica

Abstract

Functional aptitude indexes in soccer (football) players of the Jamaican all-star team. This study is mainly aimed at showing some functional aptitude indexes in 24 soccer (football) players of the Jamaican all-star team, aged 23.9 ± 3.7 and pre-classified for the World Cup in France, in 1998. The athletes were all submitted to a batery of tests consisting: 1) evaluation of power, muscular endurance and fatigue index through the Wingate Test carried out on a computerized bicycle (Cybex trademark-Bike model); 2) lower limber computerized isokinetic test using Cybex equipment (model 1200); 3) flexibility evaluation by the Wells & Dillon test; 4) laboratory analyses; 5) odontological evaluation carried out through clinical examination in Funk office (modeal MLX Plus). These are the parameters and results obtained: Wingate Test: peak power corrected by weight = 11.8 ± 1.8 w.kg-1; average power = 9.1 ± 1.2 w.kg-1; fatigue index = 46.2 ± 15.2%; Flexibility = 19.8 ± 4.6 cm; Laboratory Analyses: urine type 1, feces, hemoglobin = 14.3 ± 1.0 g%; iron = 104 ± 29 ng/dl; ferritin = 81.8 ± 41.7 ng/dl; transferrin = 502.5 ± 113.5 ug/dl; hematocrit = 43.5 ± 2.9%; erythrocytes = 49.95 ± 0.40 million/m3; glucose = 91.0 ± 8.5 mg/dl; Odontological Evaluation: tartar in 5 (21%); caries in 24 (100%); gingivitis in 10 (42%); endodontia in 3 (12.5%); pulpitis in 1 (4%); diastema in 2 (8%); heterotopic in 13 (54%); extractions achieved in 14 (58%); extractions unachieved in 4 (17%); fillings in 4 (17%); prosthesis in 16 (67%). Seventeen (71%) of the athletes examined were under prophilactic treatment. Kinetic Performance: LL right torque at 60 ° S-1 in extension = 290.4 ± 95.6 Nm; in flexion = 216.1 ± 31.4 Nm; LL left torque at 60 ° S-1 in extension = 291.6 ± 62.5 Nm; in flexion = 205.8 ± 35.8 Nm. In conclusion: Despite the lack of technological structure in the Jamaican soccer (football), the results have shown that the soccer (football) players’ indexes of functional aptitude in the players submitted to evaluation in this study are similar to those observed in our Center of Integrated Medicine.