• Admin Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
    • Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
    • Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of WIRECommunitiesTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsTypesJournalDepartmentPublisherThis CollectionTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsTypesJournalDepartmentPublisher

    Administrators

    Admin Login

    Local Links

    AboutThe University LibraryOpen Access Publications PolicyDeposit LicenceCOREWIRE Copyright and Reuse Information

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    The changing shape of “successful” professional footballers

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Authors
    Nevill, Alan M.
    Holder, Roger L.
    Watts, Adam
    Issue Date
    2009
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Football coaches and sports scientists are always seeking to identify key characteristics that can distinguish between successful and less successful footballers and teams. The purpose of the present article was to identify whether any body size, shape, and age characteristics might be associated with more successful professional footballers and whether any such characteristics might have changed over time. We found that despite a significant increase in professional footballers’ height, body mass, and body mass index (BMI) from 1973–74 to 2003–04, no differences in the body shape parameter, reciprocal ponderal index (RPI) or age were identified. Goalkeepers, central defenders, and central strikers were found to be taller (P50.001), heavier (P50.001), and older (P50.001) than players playing in wider positions, but midfielders and wider players were found to have both lower BMI and RPI than central players. However, when players from successful teams (top six) were compared with less successful teams using binary logistic regression, players from successful teams were found to be taller and more linear (as identified by a greater RPI and ectomorphy score; both P50.05) and also younger (P50.05), a trend that appears to have increased in the most recent season studied, 2003–2004, a characteristic that is most marked among forwards (P50.05). In conclusion, these results suggest that football coaches and talent scouts should pay attention to the body shape (selecting taller/more linear athletes with a high RPI) when selecting potential players for their squads.
    Citation
    Journal of Sports Sciences, 27(5): 419-426
    Publisher
    Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
    Journal
    Journal of Sports Sciences
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/52134
    DOI
    10.1080/02640410802668676
    Additional Links
    http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/02640410802668676
    Type
    Journal article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    02640414
    1466447X
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1080/02640410802668676
    Scopus Count
    Collections
    Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing

    entitlement

     
    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2023)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.