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Fourteen males from a first-division soccer club (age: 24.42 \u00b1 4.80 years) competed in two games per week for six weeks and one game per week for twelve weeks (a total of 24 games). Paired t-tests and non-parametric Wilcoxon signed ranks evaluated the significance of the differences (p &lt; 0.05). The main findings were that RPE was significantly larger when playing two games per week compared with one game. However, subject total and mean training load, mood disturbance, monotony, and subjective perception of sleep, stress, fatigue, muscle soreness monitoring (Hooper index), and the number of injuries were not different. The findings suggested that competing in two matches per week does not negatively influence injury rate and players\u2019 perceptions of training load or wellness, even though players perceive two games per week as more physically demanding compared with one game per week.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph20010579","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,30]],"date-time":"2022-12-30T03:26:11Z","timestamp":1672370771000},"page":"579","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Effects of Game Weekly Frequency on Subjective Training Load, Wellness, and Injury Rate in Male Elite Soccer Players"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Rim","family":"Sioud","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Tunisian Research Laboratory \u201cSports Performance Optimization\u201d, National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports (CNMSS), Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar Said, Manouba University, Tunis 2010, Tunisia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6240-7162","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raouf","family":"Hammami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tunisian Research Laboratory \u201cSports Performance Optimization\u201d, National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports (CNMSS), Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar Said, Manouba University, Tunis 2010, Tunisia"},{"name":"Research Laboratory, Education, Motor Skills, Sports and Health (LR19JS01), Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax 3029, Tunisia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5901-5245","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Javier","family":"Gene-Morales","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group Prevention and Health in Exercise and Sport (PHES), University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Didactics of Musical, Plastic, and Body Expression, University of Valladolid, 47002 Valladolid, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alvaro","family":"Juesas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group Prevention and Health in Exercise and Sport (PHES), University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3255-3940","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juan C.","family":"Colado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group Prevention and Health in Exercise and Sport (PHES), University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4481-4490","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Roland","family":"van den Tillaar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, Nord University, 7601 Levanger, Norway"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"665","DOI":"10.1080\/02640410500482529","article-title":"Physical and metabolic demands of training and match-play in the elite football player","volume":"24","author":"Bangsbo","year":"2006","journal-title":"J. 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