Relative age effect on physical fitness and academical achievement in youth elite football

Nowadays, in youth football categories and in the primary school context, the birth month of the athlete or student is usually associated with performance. This phenomenon is known as relative age effect (RAE), and it’s related to positive performance because of the maturation advantage in those chi...

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Autores: Hamidi, Abdel Karim, Cañada, Pablo, Gines, Honorato José, Moratal Lull, Consuelo, Huertas Olmedo, Florentino, Ballester Lengua, Rafael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir
Repositorio:RIUCV. Repositorio de la Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riucv.ucv.es:20.500.12466/2346
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12466/2346
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Football
Relative age effect
Physical fitness
Academic performance
2411.06 Fisiología del Ejercicio
58 Pedagogía
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Sumario:Nowadays, in youth football categories and in the primary school context, the birth month of the athlete or student is usually associated with performance. This phenomenon is known as relative age effect (RAE), and it’s related to positive performance because of the maturation advantage in those children who were born in the first months of the year in detriment of those who were born in the last months of the year (Towlson et al., 2017).