Maturity-associated variation in the growth and functional capacities of youth football (soccer) players 13–15 years

By R. Malina, J. Eisenmann, S. Cumming, B. Ribeiro, João Aroso. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2004

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Functional capacities and sport-specific skills of 14- to 15-year-old male basketball players: Size and maturity effects (2008, background): “Youth basketball players are taller than average, with mean heights that often exceed the 75th percentiles of reference data (Malina, 1994; Malina et al., 2004a).”
Biological maturation of youth athletes: assessment and implications (2015, neutral): “*Collated from data for Portuguese,[42-45] Spanish[46] and Italian[14] players.”
Identifying technical, physiological, tactical and psychological characteristics that contribute to career progression in soccer (2016, background): “This is because use of physiological data in predicting future performance has been questioned due to advantaging early-maturing athletes compared to late-maturing peers in these characteristics.(2,8,24) In our study, there was significant difference between groups in weight, and also some small obs”