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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023

Comparisons and associations among anthropometric indices of first and second division and assistant soccer referees.

Meysam Rostamzadeh Samarein, Mohammad Hossein Samanipour, Foad Asjodi, Pooya Shokati, Zanyar Fallahi, Thomas E Brownlee, João Paulo Brito, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Rafael Oliveira

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Meysam Rostamzadeh SamareinFaculty of Sport Sciences, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Semnan, Iran.
Mohammad Hossein SamanipourDepartment of Sport Science, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.
Foad AsjodiIran Football Medical Assessment and Rehabilitation Center (IFMARK), FIFA Medical Center of Excellence, Tehran, Iran.
Pooya ShokatiDepartment of Exercise Physiology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Zanyar FallahiDepartment of Sport Injury, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
Thomas E BrownleeResearch Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
João Paulo BritoSports Science School of Rio Maior-Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Rio Maior, Portugal.
Nicola Luigi BragazziDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Rafael OliveiraSports Science School of Rio Maior-Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Rio Maior, Portugal.

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Introduction: Body composition is an important predictor of performance and a key component of health and physical fitness. Therefore, the purposes of this study were to compare soccer referees of the first and second divisions and field assistant referees from Iran and to analyze associations of a body shape index (ABSI), body adiposity index (BAI), abdominal volume index (AVI), body roundness index (BRI), conicity index (ConI), and body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage (%BF). Methods: A total of 270 male soccer referees from the first ( Results: The main results indicated differences in WHR, WHtR, ABSI, BRI, AVI, ConI, and BF% with the assistant referees presenting higher values ( Discussion: The present study did not confirm the hypothesis that the first-division referees presented better body composition-related variables than the second division or assistant referees. Instead, it showed that the assistant referees that participated in both divisions showed a tendency to higher values which suggests that the level of division is not a major factor when analyzing body composition.

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anthropometrybody compositionfootballheighthuman bodyweight

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