Season-of-birth bias in association football

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 677-686

  Simmons, Craig ^a   Paull, Geoffrey C ^b  

^a THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age banding; Association football; Maturation; Talent identification

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIRTH; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTBALL; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MATURATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEASON;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREJUDICE; SEASONS; SELECTION BIAS; SOCCER;

EID: 0034878075     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410152475801     Document Type: Article

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