Background Expertise has been extensively studied in several sports over recent years. The
specificities of how excellence is achieved in Association Football, a sport practiced …

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

Longitudinal changes in height, weight and physical performance were studied in 33
Flemish male youth soccer players from the Ghent Youth Soccer Project. The players' ages …

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 early identification of talented individuals has become increasingly important across
many performance domains. Current talent identification (TI) schemes in sport typically …

We examined whether maturity, anthropometric profiles and fitness measures vary
according to birth date distribution in elite, under‐14 youth academy soccer players. The …

The relative age effect (RAE) and its relationships with maturation, anthropometry, and
physical performance characteristics were examined across a representative sample of …

Abstract Gravina, L, Gil, SM, Ruiz, F, Zubero, J, Gil, J, and Irazusta, J. Anthropometric and
physiological differences between first team and reserve soccer players aged 10-14 years at …

The aim of the current research was to investigate the relative age effect (RAE) as a factor of
basketball dropout. In order to do so, we examined the distribution of birth dates of young …

This study examined the simultaneous effects of relative age and biological maturity status
upon player selection in an English professional soccer academy. A total of 202 players from …