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Goalkeepers Live Longer than Field Players: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Based on World-Class Football Players

The purpose of this article is to study whether the position occupied by footballers on the pitch influences their life duration. It is known that various types of sporting activity (endurance, resistance, or mixed) may influence lifespan in different ways. However, there is a paucity of data regard...

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Autores principales: Śmigielski, Witold, Gajda, Robert, Małek, Łukasz, Drygas, Wojciech
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32872456
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176297
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author Śmigielski, Witold
Gajda, Robert
Małek, Łukasz
Drygas, Wojciech
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Gajda, Robert
Małek, Łukasz
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description The purpose of this article is to study whether the position occupied by footballers on the pitch influences their life duration. It is known that various types of sporting activity (endurance, resistance, or mixed) may influence lifespan in different ways. However, there is a paucity of data regarding the role of different positions played in team sports such as football. Our research was based on elite international football players born before 1923 who took part in the first three football World Cups (n = 443) or played in the 1946/1947 season in the leading clubs of the main European leagues (n = 280). Goalkeepers were characterized by a 5–8-year longer life duration compared to their colleagues playing in other positions (World Cup: 82.0 ± 7.0 vs. 74.0 ± 8.0, p = 0.0047; European leagues: 83.0 ± 7.5 vs. 78.0 ± 8.0, p = 0.0023), with an absence of differences between defenders, midfielders, and forwards. Moreover, in both of the analyzed subgroups, the rate of survival until the 85th birthday was significantly higher among goalkeepers than among field players (p = 0.0102 and p = 0.0048, for both studied groups, respectively).
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spelling pubmed-75040362020-09-24 Goalkeepers Live Longer than Field Players: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Based on World-Class Football Players Śmigielski, Witold Gajda, Robert Małek, Łukasz Drygas, Wojciech Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The purpose of this article is to study whether the position occupied by footballers on the pitch influences their life duration. It is known that various types of sporting activity (endurance, resistance, or mixed) may influence lifespan in different ways. However, there is a paucity of data regarding the role of different positions played in team sports such as football. Our research was based on elite international football players born before 1923 who took part in the first three football World Cups (n = 443) or played in the 1946/1947 season in the leading clubs of the main European leagues (n = 280). Goalkeepers were characterized by a 5–8-year longer life duration compared to their colleagues playing in other positions (World Cup: 82.0 ± 7.0 vs. 74.0 ± 8.0, p = 0.0047; European leagues: 83.0 ± 7.5 vs. 78.0 ± 8.0, p = 0.0023), with an absence of differences between defenders, midfielders, and forwards. Moreover, in both of the analyzed subgroups, the rate of survival until the 85th birthday was significantly higher among goalkeepers than among field players (p = 0.0102 and p = 0.0048, for both studied groups, respectively). MDPI 2020-08-29 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7504036/ /pubmed/32872456 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176297 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Goalkeepers Live Longer than Field Players: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Based on World-Class Football Players
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title_full Goalkeepers Live Longer than Field Players: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Based on World-Class Football Players
title_fullStr Goalkeepers Live Longer than Field Players: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Based on World-Class Football Players
title_full_unstemmed Goalkeepers Live Longer than Field Players: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Based on World-Class Football Players
title_short Goalkeepers Live Longer than Field Players: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Based on World-Class Football Players
title_sort goalkeepers live longer than field players: a retrospective cohort analysis based on world-class football players
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32872456
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176297
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