The Football is Medicine Steering Group 2025
The Football is Medicine (FIM) platform was established in 2018 by Professor Peter Krustrup and his colleagues from Southern Denmark University (糖果派对, Odense, Denmark). FIM is an international scientific platform disseminating results on the fitness and wellbeing effects of recreational football for participants across the lifespan. We are organizing annual conferences, and we are involved in the development of best practice evidence-based sports concepts for participants across the lifespan.
The FIM2025 Steering Group consists of 23 members from 17 countries, and 6 continents:
Maysa de Sousa from Brazil. Amri Hammami from Tunesia. Ben Jackson from Australia. Ayman Al-Bedri from Malaysia. Daniel Parnell from England. Kristina Pfeffer, Malte Nejst Larsen, Morten B Randers and Peter Krustrup from Denmark. Magni Mohr and May-Britt Skoradal from the Faroe Islands. Mihaly Szerovay from Finland. Ioannis Fatouros from Greece. Paula Carroll from Ireland. Anne-Marie Elbe from Germany. Carlo Castagna from Italy. Zoran Milanovic from Serbia. Asghar Muhammad from Sweden. George Nassis from UAE. Jennifer Frediani and Felipe Lobelo from USA. João Brito and Susana Póvoas from Portugal.
FIM conferences
So far, the Football is Medicine platform has organized 7 annual FIM conferences. FIM2018: Lisbon, Portugal. FIM2019: Odense, Denmark. FIM2020: Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. FIM2022: Doha, Qatar. FIM2023: Atlanta, US. FIM2024: Florence, Italy and : Jyväskylä, Finland.
See this YouTube video about Football as Medicine (The Danish Football Grannies):
Read about the FIM research:
- Krustrup P, Krustrup BR (2018). ! Br J Sports Med. 2018 Nov;52(22):1412-1414.
- Krustrup P, Williams CA, Mohr M, Hansen PR, Helge EW, Elbe AM, de Sousa M, Dvorak J, Junge A, Hammami A, Holtermann A, Larsen MN, Kirkendall D, Schmidt JF, Andersen TR, Buono P, Rørth M, Parnell D, Ottesen L, Bennike S, Nielsen JJ, Mendham AE, Zar A, Uth J, Hornstrup T, Brasso K, Nybo L, Krustrup BR, Meyer T, Aagaard P, Andersen JL, Hubball H, Reddy PA, Ryom K, Lobelo F, Barene S, Helge JW, Fatouros IG, Nassis GP, Xu JC, Pettersen SA, Calbet JA, Seabra A, Rebelo AN, Figueiredo P, Póvoas S, Castagna C, Milanovic Z, Bangsbo J, Randers MB, Brito J (2018). . Scand J Med Sci Sports. 28 Suppl 1:3-7.
