RESULTS
The season consisted of 266 days for the sub 20, 273 days for the sub
17, and 287 days for the sub 15, during which 65 matches were played for
the sub 20, 65 matches were played for the sub 17 and 75 matches were
played for the sub 15. Currently, the analyzed team is composed of 129
athletes subdivided into 3 categories, 44 athletes make up the Sub 15
team, 42 athletes make up the Sub 17 team, and 43 the Sub 20 team, of
this total 62 records of injured athletes were evaluated during the
period between January and November of the year 2015 for male athletes
of the categories Sub20 (17 athletes), Sub17 (20 athletes) and Sub15 (22
athletes) of a professional team, of the first soccer division, in the
city of São Paulo. The average age of the participants was 16.35 ± 1.76
years, the Sub20 group had an average age of 18.71 ± 0.07 years, the
Sub17 average age of 16.30 ± 0.47, and the Sub15 14, 59 ± 0.50 years.
Figure 1 represents the boxplot’s referring to the BMI of the analyzed
categories.
Figure 1: Boxplot’s referring to the injured athletes’ BMI by
categories.