Is the relative age effect just a European problem? A comprehensive analysis of birth date distribution and its impact on player selection at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup

• Benito Pérez-González,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Business and Communication, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain

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• Jairo León-Quismondo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7699-457X

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• José Bonal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Iyán Iván-Baragaño ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: iyanivanbaragano@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7136-4819

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• Álvaro Fernández-Luna,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8633-7311

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• Pablo Burillo

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Department of Real Madrid Graduate School, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4331-1661

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