Search Results - Soccer & Society
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Somatotype and body composition based on playing position in Peruvian U-20 football players
Caso-Mauricio, J., Miranda Flores, M. A., Javier-Aliaga, D., Calizaya-Milla, Y. E., Saintila, J.Published in Journal of Human Sport & Exercise (2025)“…A non-probabilistic sample of 120 athletes, aged 17 to 20, was drawn from a professional soccer club in Lima, Peru. Twenty-three anthropometric variables were measured following the protocols of the International Society for the Advancement of Kineanthropometry (ISAK), using Kerr`s 5-component method for body composition and the Carter and Heath somatotype classification. …”
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Designing talent development in football - a document analysis of the Norwegian academy classification model
Nilsen, A. K., Øvrevik Kjerland, G., Fusche Moe, V.Published in Soccer & Society (2024)“…Soccer & Society…”
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The evolution of the talent pathway in Major League Soccer
Mannix, P., Roberts, S. J., Enright, K., Littlewood, M.Published in Soccer & Society (2025)“…Soccer & Society…”
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All roads lead to Rome? Exploring birthplace effects and the `southern question` in Italian soccer
Morganti, G., Kelly, A. L., Apollaro, G., Pantanella, L., Esposito, M., Grossi, A., Ruscello, B.Published in Soccer & Society (2024)“…Soccer & Society…”
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Epidemiology, flexibility, growth and maturation in youth elite soccer players : prospective research leading to clinical perspectives in paediatric sports medicine
Materne, O.Published 2020“…Although, there is still no evidence of the effectiveness and long-term sports success (Read et al. 2016), the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine (DiFiori et al. 2014) and a number of researchers in youth soccer have suggested a potential psychological danger and inherent injury risks associated with this pathway (Bahr 2014; Brink et al. 2010; D. …”
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Talent development abroad. Young football players` experiences and challenges on being recruited to English academies
Hem, M., Fuhre, J., Høigaard, R., Sæther, S. A.Published in Soccer & Society (2022)“…Soccer & Society…”
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Body composition assessment and Mediterranean diet adherence in U12 Spanish male professional soccer players: Cross-sectional study
Santos-Sánchez, G., Cruz-Chamorro, I., Perza-Castillo, J. L., Vicente-Salar, N.Published in Nutrients (2021)“…Seventy-one U12 male soccer players participated in the study. Weight, height, percentiles, skinfolds, and body fat were measured by a certified anthropometrist following the procedures recommended by the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry. …”
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The talent development process as enhancing athlete functionality: Creating forms of life in an ecological niche
Rothwell, M., Davids, K., Stone, J., Araújo, D., Shuttleworth, R.Published in Talent identification and development in sport. International perspectives (2021)“…There have been many examples proposed of forms of life in high performance sport, such as Jamaican sprinting (Moore, 2015), East African distance running (Ankersen, 2012), Brazilian soccer (Uehara et al., 2018), Australian Rules football (Browne, Robertson, Sweeting & Davids, 2019; Woods, M cKeown, Shuttleworth, Davids & Robertson, 2019) as well as Finnish winter sports (Forsman et al., 2016).…”
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Performance characteristics of selected/deselected under 11 players from a professional youth football academy
Platvoet, S. W., Opstoel, K., Pion, J., Elferink-Gemser, M. T., Visscher, C.Published in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching (2020)“…In sum, the current system, tends to scout 9-year old soccer players with multiple years of soccer experience, and well-developed motor skills, who are predominantly born in the first quarter of the year. …”
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Anthropometric and body composition profile of young professional soccer players
Bernal-Orozco, M. F., Posada-Falomir, M., Quiñónez-Gastélum, C. M., Plascencia-Aguilera, L. P., Arana-Nuño, J. R., Badillo-Camacho, N., Márquez-Sandoval, F., Holway, F. E., Vizmanos-Lamotte, B.Published in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (2020)“…The purpose was to describe the anthropometric and body composition profile of young professional soccer players and to compare the players profiles between different competitive divisions and playing positions. …”