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

• Karim Hamidi ^[1] ; Pablo Cañada ^[2] ; Honorato José Ginés ^[1] ; Consuelo Moratal ^[1] ; Florentino Huertas ^[1] ; Rafael Ballester ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir

     Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir

     Valencia, España

     
  2. [2] Villarreal CF
• Localización: Actividad física y deporte: ciencia y profesión, ISSN 1578-2484, ISSN-e 2659-8930, Nº. 31, 2019, págs. 82-83
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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 etal., 2017). Most studies describes the relationship between physical fitness or anthropometric variables and RAE (Deprez etal., 2013). Only few studies stablish relationship between academical achievement and RAE granting advantage for early-maturation children (Navarro et al., 2015). The aim of the present study is to analysethe presence of the RAEand his incidence on the physical fitness and academical achievement, as well as the relationship between physical and academical performance