Sports have reached, now-a-days, up to the highest levels of professionalism, thus are more physically and psychologically demanding. Sports injuries are now quite widespread too. These injuries can reduce the athletes’ performance and keep them away from reaching their fullest potential. Sports medicine, a discipline of modern medicine deals with physical fitness as well as the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports injuries. 

Whilst the performance enhancement effects of ergogenic supplements have been well-established, there are only limited reports for their use in the training and performance evaluation in soccer players. Here, we summarize the results through literature research and present them in a more abstracted form for the scientific community.

Youth soccer players undergo a maturational changes which result in physiological, anatomical, and biological changes during adolescence. During seven years of follow-up, it was observed that in youth soccer, the sprint distance and number of sprints increased by ~35%, whereas the number of high-intensity actions increased by ~50%.

The professionals involved soccer should understand that due to the game’s rules there may not be possibility correct hydration for soccer players during the matches and the opportunities that may appear to drink electrolytic drinks are still limited, not only drinks, but also opportunities to offer carbohydrates in gel form during matches. 

Degradation of Caffeine, artificially impregnated in sterile and unsterile soil, studied under ambient conditions using the Himalayan psychrotolerant Pseudomonas sp. (GBPI_Hb5). The caffeine degradation was found increased significantly in presence of GBPI_Hb5. The t_1/2 value was estimated during kinetic study of caffeine degradation both in the presence and absence of bacteria in sterilized and unsterilized soil samples, which was also found reduced significantly.