Seasonal birth distribution of west European soccer players: a possible explanation.
Twice as many top soccer players from The Netherlands, Belgium and France are born in August, as compared to July. A creeping selection mechanism, inadvertently caused by organisational aspects of the youth soccer competition in the countries mentioned, could be the explanation.
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