Soccer Player Characteristics in English Lower-League Development Programmes: The Relationships between Relative Age, Maturation, Anthropometry and Physical Fitness

• Ric Lovell ,

  * E-mail: r.lovell@uws.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Science and Health, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia

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• Chris Towlson,

  Affiliation Department of Sport, Health and Exercise Science, The University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

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• Guy Parkin,

  Affiliation Pro-football Support, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

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• Matt Portas,

  Affiliation Sport and Exercise Department, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

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• Roel Vaeyens,

  Affiliation Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Stephen Cobley

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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