Za decake:
Rekose mi ovih dana da u Panini albumu za slicice vezanom za Svetsko prvenstvo ima oko 600 slicica fudbalera.
A jeste li znali da je vecina tih fudbalera rodjena u prva tri meseca godine (od januara do marta)? U omladinskim postavama ta proporcija je jos veca, pa je preko 50 posto igraca rodjeno u prva tri meseca, a ostatak je rasporedjen u devet meseci.
Nacnici su uzeli i pozabavili se time, pitajuci se da li to ima veze sa astrologijom, kolicinom kiseonika, vremenom kad fudbalski orijentisani roditelji prave decu i sl. I, nije nista od toga.
Evo objasnjenja, pise NYT:
"Since youth sports are organized by age bracket, teams inevitably have a cutoff birth date. In the European youth soccer leagues, the cutoff date is Dec. 31. So when a coach is assessing two players in the same age bracket, one who happened to have been born in January and the other in December, the player born in January is likely to be bigger, stronger, more mature. Guess which player the coach is more likely to pick? He may be mistaking maturity for ability, but he is making his selection nonetheless. And once chosen, those January-born players are the ones who, year after year, receive the training, the deliberate practice and the feedback — to say nothing of the accompanying self-esteem — that will turn them into elites."
I mean, glupo ali istinito.
A za devojcice OVDE.
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