ArticleCureus2025
Youth Football Tournaments: Are We Developing Players or Harming Their Growth?
Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
Currently, many children and teenagers dream of becoming football players and dedicate a large part of their time to achieving this goal. The clubs' medical and performance departments' primary mission is to reduce the risk of injury to these athletes, allowing them to have more playing and training time to develop their full capabilities. This study aimed to investigate whether participation in youth football tournaments with congested schedules increases the risk of injury in U15 footballers, particularly during critical stages of maturation. In this way, in a retrospective manner, an analysis was conducted of the injuries recorded after a period marked by the participation of a U15 elite team in a preseason youth football tournament. Additionally, the maturational stage of each athlete on this team was recorded and the external workload data through the Global Positioning System (GPS), which included total distance (TD), high-speed running (HSR), accelerations and decelerations greater than or less than 2 m·s
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