important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six … national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms …

football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a … professional football season. Controlling for the pre-game point spread and the size of the local viewing audience, we find that …

rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football …

for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we …

We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of … on all the matches played by national teams in all the tournaments of the FIFA Soccer World Cup (from 1930 to 2010) and … the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and …

There are three main critical areas in the Italian football industry. First, we find that the revenues of teams playing … rigging, and the new episodes on betting scandals in 2009 and 2010, have depressed the total revenues of all teams not only of …

countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters … youngsters allocation of time to socializing and to reading and studying activities, with Italy standing out as the country where …