How do college coaches in the United States identify youth female and male soccer players?

• Matthew Andrew ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: matthew.andrew@mmu.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2007-910X

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• Sam Barraclough,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8584-6408

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• Andrew O. Triggs,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations UCFB Manchester Campus, Manchester, United Kingdom, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2431-5633

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• James H. Dugdale,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Adam Kelly,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Matthew J. Reeves

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Centre for Applied Sport, Physical Activity & Performance, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom, Department of Physical Sport Sciences, College of Sports Sciences & Physical Activity, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3903-2910

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