Tracking distance ran playing football

[Lone Shark]

Question for all ye trainers and gurus out there.

I know the chips for running road races measure time, and I know that big soccer teams have satellite tracking of players to see how much distance has been covered. Is there any low cost solution that measures how far players have run playing football? The road running ones simply measure start and end time past a point, but I'm guessing that based on the Nike Plus system, there surely must be some way of doing it. Anybody with any insight?

[mick999]

If it was just for training, a cheap solution would be a mobile phone plus heard rate monitor using endomondo like this :

http://store.endomondo.com/polar-wearlinkr-transmitter-with-bluetoothr-and-tunebelt-armband.html

I have used endomondo on my mobile phone for tracking runs, cycling , It's great and free ..

It works with iphones, androids and symbian devices with inbuilt gps .

Probaby not very practical in a game situation..

The professionals use this:

http://gpsports.com

[HiMucker]

Trundle wheel is very accurate, but makes handling a bit more difficult.

[ONeill]

Pedometer