Career trajectories, transition rates, and birthdate distributions: the rocky road from youth to senior level in men's European football

• Hoofdauteurs: Paolo Riccardo Brustio (Auteur), Alexander B. T. McAuley (Auteur), Alexandru Nicolae Ungureanu (Auteur), Adam Leigh Kelly (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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This study aimed to assess youth-to-senior transition rates, quantify the magnitude of relative age effect (RAEs), and evaluate how RAEs affect these transitions in 9,527 men's national football players of England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Regardless of national team, only −15%, 25%,...