Changes in Echocardiographic Parameters among Beninese Soccer Referees during the Division 1 Championship in 2016
Table 1
Anthropometric parameters of a sample of soccer referees at the beginning and at the end of the Division 1 championship (Benin, 2016).
National level (n = 20)
International level (n = 17)
whole sample n = 37
At the beginning of the championship
At the end of the championship
At the beginning of the championship
At the end of the championship
At the beginning of the championship
At the end of the championship
Height (cm)
170.1 ± 1.4
-
176.4 ± 1.5††
-
173.0 ± 1.1
-
Body mass (kg)
65.0 ± 1.8
63.7 ± 1.7
70.9 ± 1.8†
70.6 ± 1.7
67.7 ± 1.3
66.9 ± 1.3
BMI (kg/m2)
22.5 ± 0.5
22.1 ± 0.5
22.8 ± 0.6
22.7 ± 0.5
22.7 ± 0.4
22.4 ± 0.3
WTA (H)
4.2 ± 0.8
-
8.0 ± 0.0
-
5.9 ± 2.0
-
SIA (year)
1.8 ± 0.6
-
2.7 ± 0.4
-
2.2 ± 0.7
-
BM: body mass; BMI = body mass index; WTA: weekly training amount; SIA: seniority in the arbitration; †: significant intergroup difference at P < 0.05; ††: significant intergroup difference at P < 0.01; : significant.
