Background Agility is acknowledged as a crucial factor of performance in various open skill
sports in both adult and youth athletes. However, despite its significance for sports …

Talent identification in youth soccer is a complex decision-making process that requires
selectors to judge an individual's future potential. While there has been considerable …

There are a plethora of studies investigating agility in soccer; however, studies have rarely
presented the reaction time in differentiating age groups in adolescent soccer players. We …

Assessing the physical ability of players to perform change of direction and the cognitive and
motor abilities revealed in reactive agility (RA) is necessary to understand the physical …

Agility, a key component of team ball sports, describes an athlete´ s ability to move fast in
response to changing environments. While agility requires basic cognitive functions like …

Biological maturity can affect performance on motor tests, thus young players can have
advantages or disadvantages during testing by being more or less mature than their peers of …

Aim: The aim of this paper is to determine the effect of 6 weeks of plyometric training on
speed, explosive power, pre-planned agility, and reactive agility in young tennis players …

The purpose of the study was to evaluate predicted maturity offset (time before age at PHV)
and age at PHV (chronological age [CA] minus maturity offset) in a longitudinal sample of 58 …

The ability to differentiate the elite from nonelite athletes is not clearly defined. We
investigated level differences in speed, change of direction speed (CODS), and reactive …

Football clubs regularly test and monitor players, with different approaches reflecting player
age and competitive level. This narrative review aims to summarise justifications for testing …