Maturity-associated variation in sport-specific skills of youth soccer players aged 13-15 years

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 515-522

  Malina, Robert M ^a,f   Cumming, Sean P ^b   Kontos, Anthony P ^c   Eisenmann, Joey C ^d   Ribeiro, Basil ^e   Aroso, João ^e  

^a TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF MAIA   (Portugal)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Motor performance; Puberty; Sport specific skills

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FOOTBALL; GROUPS BY AGE; HAIR GROWTH; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURITY; SKILL; SPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VARIANCE; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BODY SIZE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LINEAR MODELS; PUBERTY; SOCCER;

EID: 21244452318     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410410001729928     Document Type: Article

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