Clinical trial NCT06941064: Relationship of Anthropometric Profile and Fitness Indicators With Sports Performance of Elite Mexican National Team Soccer Players
Official title: Relating Anthropometric Profile and Countermovement Jump Performance to In-Match GPS-Derived External Load Metrics in Mexican National Team Soccer Players
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Conditions: Athletes
Soccer
Keywords: Kinanthropometry
Body Composition
Sports Performance
Somatotype
Lead sponsor: Iberoamerican Institute of Sports Science and Human Movement
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Metropolitan Autonomous University
First posted: 2025-04-23
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Mexican National Team soccer players gathered at the Mexican Football Federation facilities before official international matches.

Brief summary: Relating Anthropometric Profile to Fitness and Sports Performance in Mexican National Team Soccer Players

Detailed description: Previous studies have reported differences in the body composition of Latin American or European youth to elite soccer players based on playing position or age. Furthermore, in youth or sub-elite samples, body composition has been linked to in-match speed, distance, or acceleration. Few studies have been developed with elite samples of soccer players. Elite soccer performance depends on the complex interaction of physical, physiological, tactical, and contextual variables. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of anthropometric, countermovement jump and in-match performance variables can provide deeper insight into soccer success. Accordingly, this study addresses this knowledge gap by characterizing and analyzing the multidimensional relationships between these variables in elite Mexican soccer players. A descriptive, cross-sectional study will be conducted. According to the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK) standards, sixteen anthropometric variables have been assessed to characterize the athlete's anthropometric profile. The counter-movement jump assessments were conducted using a ForceDecks Max platform. During matches, the players' displacement was monitored using 18 Hz WIMU Pro GPS units. Normality tests of all variables will be performed. A descriptive analysis of anthropometric and body composition characteristics of overall and among playing positions will be performed. The relationship between body composition and anthropometric profile with counter-movement jump and in-match GPS-Derived External Load Metrics will be computed. Multivariate models will be explored to analyze multidimensional relationships between these variables.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Athletes who attended the evaluation laboratories.
* Athletes who gave their assent to carry out the evaluations.
* Female or male soccer players.
* Actively competing in national and/or international tournaments.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not having been called to integrate the Mexican national soccer team during the evaluation dates.
* Injured or ill athletes during the assessments.
* Athletes who do not give their assent to carry out the evaluations.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Anthropometric profile
timeFrame: One day
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Countermovement jump performance
timeFrame: One day
measure: GPS-derived external load metrics
timeFrame: One day
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mexico City
country: Mexico
facility: Mexican Football Federation
Study officials:
affiliation: Institute of Sports Medicine, Cuba
name: William Carvajal Veitía
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Andres Bello University (UNAB), Chile
name: Rodrigo Yáñez Sepúlveda
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Metropolitan Autonomous University campus Xochimilco
name: Luis Ortíz Hernández
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Mexican Football Federation
name: Israel Rios Limas
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Mexican Football Federation
name: Andrés López Sagarra
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Universidad de las Américas (UDLA), Ecuador
name: José F López Gil
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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