Epidemiology and prevention of football-related injuries in youth male football players: development of the ‘FUNBALL’ programme (PhD Academy Award)

The aims of my thesis were (1) to investigate the efficacy of existing multi-component exercise-based injury prevention programmes (IPPs); (2) to describe the development process for the first IPP specifically designed for youth football players, called ‘FUNBALL’; (3) to evaluate the efficacy of ‘FUNBALL’ and (4) to describe the epidemiology of injuries that occurred in the control arm of study 3.