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Impact of biological maturation on match workload in Portuguese elite male academy soccer players

Nuno Ribeiro
1, 2, 3
,
Oliver Gonzalo-Skok
4
,
João Valente-Dos-Santos
2, 5, 6
,
Mauro Mandorino
7, 8
,
Marco Beato
9
,
Jamie Salter
10
,
Hadi Nobari
11, 12
,
Nuno Loureiro
3
,
Ruben Ferreira
3
,
João Pedro Araújo
3
,
Francisco Tavares
3

  1. Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Universidade Lusófona, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal
  2. CIDEFES, Research Center in Sports, Physical Education, Exercise and Health, Universidade Lusófona, 1749 024 Lisbon, Portugal
  3. Medical and Performance Department, Sporting Clube de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
  4. Department of Communication and Education, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Seville, Spain
  5. CIFI2D, Centre of Research, Education, Innovation and Intervention in Sport, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  6. COD, Center of Sports Optimization, Sporting Clube de Portugal, 1600-464 Lisbon, Portugal
  7. Performance and Analytics Department, Parma Calcio 1913, 43121 Parma, Italy
  8. Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Piazza L. de Bosis 6, 00135 Rome, Italy
  9. School of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Suffolk, Ipswich IP4 1QJ, United Kingdom
  10. School of Science, Technology and Health, York St John University, York, United Kingdom
  11. Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil 56199-11367, Iran
  12. Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Biol Sport. 2026;43:1329-1340
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2026.161102
Online publish date: 2026/04/20
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