Journal of sports sciences
How competitive environments shape career progression in youth football: Context-dependent influence of geographical proximity to U19 Bundesliga teams and professional clubs.
Finn Christian Simonn, Galila Nasser
Published: 202510.1080/02640414.2025.2605424
Abstract
Adopting an ecological perspective that considers geospatial competition as a central contextual factor in talent development, this study investigates how proximity to other elite U19 teams and professional clubs relates to the transition of German y…
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