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Every year, soccer clubs invest significant amounts of money in professional players, with soccer being one of the most popular and competitive Olympic sports worldwide. Also, professional soccer has been affected ( Guerrero-Calderón, 2020). For this reason, behavioral, non-pharmacological public health measures such as isolation, physical distancing, quarantine, and even lockdown of entire communities and territories are the only effective ways to respond to the outbreak ( World Health Organization, 2020).īesides its social, psychological, and economic impact, COVID-19 has affected sports activities too, with major competitions and events being canceled/postponed ( Fuentes-García et al., 2020 Guerrero-Calderón, 2020). Currently, no effective pharmacological interventions or vaccines are available to treat or prevent COVID-19. COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus, named “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus type 2” (SARS-CoV-2), which is transmitted via droplets during close unprotected contact with an infector and fomites ( World Health Organization, 2020). On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern, and, on 11 March 2020, as a global pandemic ( World Health Organization, 2020). The first case was reported from the city of Wuhan (Hubei Province, Mainland China) on 31 December 2019. “Coronavirus disease 2019” (COVID-19) is a new, rapidly emerging zoonotic infectious disease ( World Health Organization, 2020).

We concluded that COVID-19-related restrictions and quarantine COVID-19 demonstrated adverse effects on professional soccer players’ Yo-Yo tests performance. The main results demonstrated significant differences between pre- versus post-COVID-19 quarantine in the following variables: relative distance (161.7 ± 5.9 > 141.1 ± 33.8 m/min), maximal speed (18.7 ± 0.9 > 18.2 ± 0.6 km/h), acceleration (60 ± 20 frequency > 52 ± 16 frequency), deceleration (34 ± 13 frequency > 27 ± 6 frequency), sprints > 19 km/h, and in high intensity running distance. During each test, the soccer players’ running performance outcomes were monitored using a portable 5-Hz GPS with a 100 Hz accelerometer and a paired t-test was conducted at a p-value of ≤ 0.05.

The intermittent Yo-Yo test was performed pre- and post- COVID-19 quarantine in a random order. 20 high-level soccer players ( n = 20 age: 26 ± 4 years-old weight: 76.85 ± 6.7 kg height: 179 ± 6 cm) participated in this study. The present study aimed to verify the quarantine’s effects during a serious viral outbreak on the cardiovascular and performance associated with the Yo-Yo test in a sample of professional soccer players.