The biological age of 14-year-old boys and success in adult soccer: Do early maturers predominate in the top-level game?

Research in Sports Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 398-407

  Ostojic, Sergej M ^a,b   Castagna, Carlo ^c   Calleja González, Julio ^a,d   Jukic, Igor ^a,e   Idrizovic, Kemal ^a,f   Stojanovic, Marko ^a,b  

^a Center for Health Exercise and Sport Sciences   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c Football Training and Biomechanics Lab Italian Football Association   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO   (Montenegro)

Author keywords

elite soccer; maturation; skeletal age; youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCCER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCCER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919355173     PISSN: 15438627     EISSN: 15438635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15438627.2014.944303     Document Type: Article

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