Anthropometric Characteristics of Elite Soccer Players from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro

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Introduction A soccer game is said to be the most important secondary thing in the world, it gathers huge masses at stadiums and in front of TVs (Gardašević, 2010; Gardašević, Bjelica, Popović, & Milašinović, 2016). It is a highly dynamic and fast team game which, with its richness of movement, falls under category of polystructural sports games (Bjelica, 2005; Gardašević i Goranović, 2011; Gardašević i Bjelica, 2013; Gardaševic & Bjelica, 2014a; Gardasevic i Bjelica, 2014b). Soccer is a sport that is characterized by numerous and various complex and dynamic kinesiological activities which are then characterized by either cyclical (Gardašević, Vasiljević i Bojanić, 2015; Bjelica, Popović, & Gardašević, 2016a; Bjelica, Popović i Gardašević, 2016b; Sermaxhaj, Popovic, Bjelica, Gardasevic, & Arifi, 2017; Gardasevic, Bjelica & Vasiljevic, 2017a; Gardasevic, Bjelica & Vasiljevic, 2017b) or acyclical movement (Gardasevic, 2015; Gardašević i sar., 2015; Gardašević, Bjelica i Vasiljević, 2016a; Gardašević, Bjelica i Vasiljević, 2016b; Gardasevic, Bjelica, Milasinovic i Vasiljevic, 2016; Gardaševic i Vasiljević, 2016; Gardasevic, Popovic, & Bjelica, 2016). In soccer, top score can be achieved only under conditions of well-programmed training process (Gardašević, Bjelica i Popović, 2015). High quality management of the training process depends on the knowing of the structure of certain anthropological capabiAbstract