Could the Human Development Index and Birth-Date of the players influence the climbing up to higher performance in Soccer?

Could the Human Development Index and Birth-Date of the players influence the climbing up to higher performance in Soccer?

Authors

  • Israel Teoldo Costa Departamento de Esportes, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, MG
  • Felippe Silva Leite Cardoso Universidade Federal de Viçosa, MG
  • Júlio Garganta Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto, Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5016/4653

Keywords:

Soccer. Human Development Index. Relative Age. Demographic Rate.

Abstract

The present study verifies the possible influence of the human development index (HDI) and the birth-date (BD) on the climb up to higher performance in sports, considering Brazilian football context. The sample comprised all 643 players from 20 teams of the Premier Football League in Brazil. The data were collected from official website of Brazilian National Federation, United Nations Development Programme and Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Descriptive analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, chi-square test (²), Pearson correlation and Kruskall-Wallis H test were carried out. The level of significance was set at α=0.05. The results suggested that contextual factors associated with size and HDI of birth-place and birth-date contribute to the achievement of the Premier Football League. Thus, players were born in the first months of the year and in cities with medium or higher HDI had more conditions to climb up the elite level of Brazilian Football.

Author Biographies

Felippe Silva Leite Cardoso, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, MG

Possui graduação em Educação Física pela Universidade Federal de Viçosa (2010). Atualmente está inserido no programa de mestrado em Educação Física pela Universidade Federal de Viçosa (2012). Também é membro do Núcleo de Pesquisa e Estudos em Futebol (http://www.nucleofutebol.ufv.br/). Desenvolve trabalhos científicos nas áreas do Futebol, Tática, Análise de Jogo, Psicologia do Esporte e Treinamento Esportivo.

Júlio Garganta, Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto, Porto

Possui doutorado na área de modelação tática no futebol e exerce cargos administrativos ligados a essa área, como por exemplo: coordenador do gabinete de futebol da Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto, membro do grupo de investigação de Designs Observacionais na Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Barcelona, membro do Comitê Científico do Jornal de Pesquisas sobre a Educação Física e Esporte pela Universidade de Franche-Comté (Besançon), membro do Comitê Científico Internacional da Revista Coaching e Sport Science, entre outras 11 revistas internacionais que versam sobre o tema. Possui mais de 150 trabalhos científicos apresentados em congressos nacionais e internacionais, foi autor/co-autor de 135 artigos e 10 livros publicados internacionalmente, versando os temas ensino-aprendizagem, o treinamento e a investigação nos jogos esportivos coletivos, com predominante incidência no futebol.

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Published

2013-01-30

Issue

V. 19, N. 1 (2013)

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