Relative Age and Passing Performance in Pre-adolescent Football Players | NCT07728305

NCT07728305

Overview

NCT ID: NCT07728305
Lead Sponsor: Federal University of VicosaOTHER
Official Title: Relative Age and Passing Performance in Pre-adolescent Football Players: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Loughborough Soccer Passing Test
Brief Summary: This completed cross-sectional observational study examined whether relative age within an annual selection cycle was associated with passing performance in pre-adolescent football players. Participants were classified by birth month, birth quarter and birth semester. Passing performance was assessed using the Loughborough Soccer Passing Test, in which players completed 16 passes to colour-coded targets as quickly and accurately as possible. Total performance time combined movement time, time penalties for errors and time bonuses for accurate passes. The study evaluated the distribution of players across the selection year and the association between relative age and passing-test performance while accounting for the two chronological birth cohorts represented in the sample.
Conditions

Ages Eligible for Study: Child (0-17)
Sexes Eligible for Study: Male
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No data available
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Registered or actively participating in the selected youth football development programme in Bello, Colombia during the assessment period.

Date of birth available in the programme roster.

Able to undertake the football passing assessment.

Written parent or legal guardian consent and child assent.

Exclusion Criteria:

Acute injury, illness or medical restriction preventing safe completion of the LSPT [retain only if this was an actual criterion].

Unable to complete the required familiarisation or test procedure.

Missing date-of-birth information.

No valid LSPT trial available for inclusion in the primary analytical sample.