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The 11+ now available in several languages through FIFA
Intoduction
As a part of FIFA’s worldwide promotion strategy of The 11+ an important part is to make the program freely available to the sports community. F-MARC recently launched a new website offering the injury prevention program in five languages.
The 11+ is a 20-minute warm-up program, developed by OSTRC and F-MARC.
By improving strength, balance, core stability and muscular awareness the program has been shown to drastically reduce football injuries overall, as well as lower extremity injuries, severe injuries leading to absence longer than one month, and overuse injuries.
In an editorial John Brooks (injury expert for the Rugby Football Union) and Samuel Erith (head of sports science, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club) stated that the wider sporting population at all levels should adopt this warm-up program to reduce injury in all sports.
Both FIFA and OSTRC have a policy of sharing knowledge with the wider sports population. Therefore, F-MARC have redesigned and translated the material used in the scientific study (published in BMJ Dec 2008), and made The 11+ available online in English, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese.
Videos and downloads of posters and training cards in 5 languages