Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and is performed by men and women, children
and adults with different levels of expertise. Soccer performance depends upon a myriad of …

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 …

Soccer requires intermittent physical activity in which sequences of actions requiring a
variety of skills of varying intensities are strung together. Running is the predominant activity …

The objective was to estimate the contribution of experience, body size and maturity status to
variation in the functional capacities of adolescent football (soccer) players. The sample …

Abstract Sporis, G, Jukic, I, Ostojic, SM, and Milanovic, D. Fitness profiling in soccer: physical
and physiologic characteristics of elite players. J Strength Cond Res 23 (7): 1947-1953 …

The consistent asymmetry in the birth‐date distribution of senior professional soccer players
has led us to investigate whether similar asymmetries emerge throughout youth categories …

Objective: To evaluate the growth, maturity status and functional capacity of youth soccer
players grouped by level of skill. Subjects: The sample included 69 male players aged 13.2 …

The aim of this study was to estimate the contribution of experience, body size and maturity
status to variation in sport-specific skills of adolescent soccer players. The participants were …

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of adding vertical/horizontal plyometrics to
the soccer training routine on jumping and sprinting performance in U-20 soccer players …