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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 464-469Publisher
GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1569370
Keywords
sport selection; technical skills; fitness; maturation; growth
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- Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES/Brazil)
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [SFRH/BPD/100470/2014]
- National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq/Brazil)
- National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq/Brazil) [485176/2012-2]
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This study compared variation in size, function and sport-specific technical skills of youth soccer players associated with differences in biological maturity status. 60 male soccer players of under-14 (U14) and under-17 (U17) categories were submitted to anthropometric and body composition measurements as well as motor and soccer-specific technical skill tests. Skeletal maturity was determined by skeletal age. Athletes of both categories were classified as early, on-time or late-maturing, according to the difference between chronological age and skeletal age. Body mass and height were lower in the late athletes, independent of category (P<0.01). Differences in adiposity were found only between athletes of the U14 (late
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