Relative age effect and second-tiers: No second chance for later-born players

• Ante Rađa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Split, Faculty of kinesiology, Split, Croatia

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• Johnny Padulo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Split, Faculty of kinesiology, Split, Croatia, University eCampus, Novedrate, Italy, Tunisian Research Laboratory Sports Performance Optimization, National Center of Medicine and Science in Sport, Tunis, Tunisia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4254-3105

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• Igor Jelaska,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Split, Faculty of kinesiology, Split, Croatia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5566-5235

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• Luca Paolo Ardigò ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luca Paolo Ardigò, Luca Fumarco

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: luca.ardigo@univr.it

  Affiliation School of Exercise and Sport Science, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7677-5070

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• Luca Fumarco

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luca Paolo Ardigò, Luca Fumarco

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation STATEC Research, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6236-0197

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