Annual age-grouping is a common organizational strategy in sport. However, such a
strategy appears to promote relative age effects (RAEs). RAEs refer both to the immediate …

Children born shortly before the cutoff date for age grouping in youth sport programs suffer
from being promoted to higher age groups earlier than their later-born peers. Skewed …

The current manuscript has been adapted from the official position statement of the UK
Strength and Conditioning Association on youth resistance training. It has subsequently …

The start of a new Olympic cycle offers a fresh chance for individuals and nations to excel at
the highest level in sport. Most countries attempt to develop systematic structures to identify …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review around talent identification in soccer using
physiological and technical testing procedures, and to summarise the issues associated with …

The aim of this study was to examine the physical and perceptual-cognitive demands
imposed on UEFA top-class referees and assistant referees during the final round of the …

We report the morphology (height, weight, body fat, body mass index), fitness (strength,
speed, agility, flexibility), and soccer-specific (dribbling) and non-specific motor coordination …

Injuries can counter the beneficial aspects related to sports activities if an athlete is unable to
continue to participate because of residual effects of injury. We provide an updated …

The aim of the present investigation was to study the possible effects of specificity of training
on muscle strength and anaerobic power in children from different sports and at different …

The question whether youth competition should be related to chronological age (CA) is not a
new one.[l-5l As long ago as 1901, Cramptonlll suggested that a more realistic criterion than …