Comparison of physical activities of female football players in junior high school and high school.
Yuri Inoue, Yoshitaka Otani, Seiichi Takemasa
PMID 28878461WHAT IT FOUND
High school female football players ran faster and completed football agility tests better than junior high players, and bounded farther.
Their strength, balance, endurance, hopping, flexibility, and curl-ups did not differ.
Key findings
01High school players were significantly faster than junior high players on the 40-m sprint and both football agility tests.
02High school players also had a longer bounding test distance.
03There were no significant differences in flexibility, lower-limb strength, curl-ups, hopping, single-leg balance, modified Star Excursion Balance, or endurance.
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What it does not show
The sample was small. The players came from a single regional club team. Grouping by school level did not consider individual maturity. Only limited lower-limb strength was measured.
The easy way to misread this
Do not generalise these differences to all female football players. The study included 29 players from a single regional club team, and grouping by school level did not consider individual maturity.