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A retrospective study on anthropometrical, physical fitness, and motor coordination characteristics that influence dropout, contract status, and first-team playing time in high-level soccer players aged eight to eighteen years

Dieter Deprez (UGent) , Job Fransen (UGent) , Matthieu Lenoir (UGent) , Renaat Philippaerts (UGent) and Roel Vaeyens (UGent)
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The goal of this article was twofold, and a 2-study approach was conducted. The first study aimed to expose the anthropometrical, physical performance, and motor coordination characteristics that influence dropout from a high-level soccer training program in players aged 8-16 years. The mixed-longitudinal sample included 388 Belgian youth soccer players who were assigned to either a "club group" or a "dropout group." In the second study, cross-sectional data of anthropometry, physical performance, and motor coordination were retrospectively explored to investigate which characteristics influence future contract status (contract vs. no contract group) and first-team playing time for 72 high-level youth soccer players (mean age = 16.2 years). Generally, club players outperformed their dropout peers for motor coordination, soccer-specific aerobic endurance, and speed. Anthropometry and estimated maturity status did not discriminate between club and dropout players. Contract players jumped further (p = 0.011) and had faster times for a 5-m sprint (p = 0.041) than no contract players. The following prediction equation explains 16.7% of the variance in future playing minutes in adolescent youth male soccer players: 22,869.3 + 14.6 x standing broad jump. Practitioners should include the evaluation of motor coordination, aerobic endurance, and speed performances to distinguish high-level soccer players further succeeding a talent development program and future dropout players, between 8 and 16 years. From the age of 16 years, measures of explosivity are supportive when selecting players into a future professional soccer career.
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ELITE, PARTICIPATION, football, CHILDREN, PERFORMANCE, SPORT, TALENT IDENTIFICATION, RELATIVE AGE, YOUTH SOCCER, MATURITY-ASSOCIATED VARIATION, performance, maturity, selection, development, talent, COMPETITION

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Deprez, Dieter, et al. “A Retrospective Study on Anthropometrical, Physical Fitness, and Motor Coordination Characteristics That Influence Dropout, Contract Status, and First-Team Playing Time in High-Level Soccer Players Aged Eight to Eighteen Years.” JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH, vol. 29, no. 6, 2015, pp. 1692–704, doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000000806.
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Deprez, D., Fransen, J., Lenoir, M., Philippaerts, R., & Vaeyens, R. (2015). A retrospective study on anthropometrical, physical fitness, and motor coordination characteristics that influence dropout, contract status, and first-team playing time in high-level soccer players aged eight to eighteen years. JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH, 29(6), 1692–1704. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000000806
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Deprez, Dieter, Job Fransen, Matthieu Lenoir, Renaat Philippaerts, and Roel Vaeyens. 2015. “A Retrospective Study on Anthropometrical, Physical Fitness, and Motor Coordination Characteristics That Influence Dropout, Contract Status, and First-Team Playing Time in High-Level Soccer Players Aged Eight to Eighteen Years.” JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH 29 (6): 1692–1704. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000000806.
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Deprez, Dieter, Job Fransen, Matthieu Lenoir, Renaat Philippaerts, and Roel Vaeyens. 2015. “A Retrospective Study on Anthropometrical, Physical Fitness, and Motor Coordination Characteristics That Influence Dropout, Contract Status, and First-Team Playing Time in High-Level Soccer Players Aged Eight to Eighteen Years.” JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH 29 (6): 1692–1704. doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000000806.
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Deprez D, Fransen J, Lenoir M, Philippaerts R, Vaeyens R. A retrospective study on anthropometrical, physical fitness, and motor coordination characteristics that influence dropout, contract status, and first-team playing time in high-level soccer players aged eight to eighteen years. JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH. 2015;29(6):1692–704.
IEEE
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D. Deprez, J. Fransen, M. Lenoir, R. Philippaerts, and R. Vaeyens, “A retrospective study on anthropometrical, physical fitness, and motor coordination characteristics that influence dropout, contract status, and first-team playing time in high-level soccer players aged eight to eighteen years,” JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1692–1704, 2015.
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  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000000806}},
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