If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World
Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even
more pronounced.
①If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months.
?、贗f you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced.
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①如果檢查一下 2006 年世界杯足球錦標賽所有參賽運動員的出生證明,你很可能會發(fā)現(xiàn)一個值得注意的怪現(xiàn)象:出色的足球運動員往往在一年中的頭幾個月出生。
?、谌绻訇P(guān)注一下為世界杯和職業(yè)球隊輸送人才的歐洲國家青年隊,你會發(fā)現(xiàn)這一現(xiàn)象更加明顯。