ArticleScientific reports2022
Leg dominance and performance in change of directions tests in young soccer players.
Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Comparative effects of unilateral and bilateral plyometric training on physical fitness in adolescent team-sport athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Is Non-dominant Leg a Key Factor for Endurance Performance in Male Youth Soccer Players? Data-Driven Knowledge-Adjusted Causal Analysis and Literature Synthesis.Sports medicine - open · 2026Article
- A New Method of Analysing Sprint, Deceleration, and Change of Direction Abilities in Trained Athletes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Reliability and sensitivity of mechanical properties of phase-specific during the 505-test using a radar device in soccer players.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Change-of-direction ability in soccer is angle-specific: implications for multi-angle testing and speed deficit calculation.Biology of sport · 2026Article
- Is the dominant leg also the stronger leg in vertical and horizontal jump performance in young male soccer players?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Lower-limb asymmetry in healthy male athletes.Journal of physical therapy science · 2025Article
- Reliability and Validity of Key Performance Metrics of Modified 505 Test.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Bilateral strength balance of knee extensor and flexor muscles in female soccer players.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Relationship between Physical Demands and Player Performance in Professional Female Basketball Players Using Inertial Movement Units.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Acute effects of prismatic adaptation on penalty kick accuracy and postural control in young soccer players: A pilot study.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Horizontal jump asymmetries are associated with reduced range of motion and vertical jump performance in female soccer players.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Penalty feet positioning rule modification and laterality effect on soccer goalkeepers' diving kinematics.Scientific reports · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The present study aimed to examine the influence of leg dominance on the change of direction (COD) performance. In this study participated 94 healthy young highly trained male soccer players belonging from two categories (n = 27 vs. n = 67; 14.81 ± 0.40 vs. 16.64 ± 1.25 years of age; 170.61 ± 5.61 vs. 173.73 ± 7.19 cm of height; 64.74 ± 8.44 vs. 66.70 ± 7.95 kg of weight, for U16 and U18, respectively). Fitness assessments were performed two times in a period of three months, and included: (1) anthropometry measures, (2) 30-15 IFT, (3) 10-m sprint test, (4) 505-COD test, 90° COD test and cross-over hop test. A paired sample t-test was performed to evaluate the asymmetries at the intragroup level in each of the COD's tests. A symmetry index was used to analyse the asymmetries between categories, and an independent sample t-test was used to compare the variability between the two categories in each of the three tests performed. The effect size was also evaluated. Analysis demonstrated that evidence a trend for a better performance with the preferred leg in the cross-over hop and 505-COD tests, and with the non-dominant leg in the 90° COD. However, in the intragroup analysis, only the 505-COD test registered differences, and no differences were notice din the intergroup comparison. Only in the 505-COD test the percentage of variability (CV) was statistically significant (7.03 ± 4.18% vs. 4.03 ± 2.02% from U16 and U18, respectively). In sum, bilateral differences were noticed in the intragroup comparison, although only in 505-COD test the leg dominance showed to influence performance. In the intergroup analysis any difference was noticed between age categories.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.