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The objective of this study was to verify the level of physical fitness and health in adolescents, practicers and non practicers of systematized and oriented soccer or futsal as extracurricular sport, and to compare the results with some related criteria of health proposed by literature. The total amount was 247 male adolescents, between 14 and 15 years old. The physical fitness and health wase valuated with variables Body Mass Index (BMI), abdominal powers/resistance, flexibility (sit and reach) and cardio respiratory resistance. The statistical analysis was in software SPSS for Windows, version 13.0. Inrelation to results, we verified better index of health in adolescents practicers than nonpracticers. We verified great occurrences of adolescents that non practice soccer or futsal out of scholar scope below of health ful zone of physical fitness and health. Concluded that exist a big probability of systematized and oriented practice of a sport modality extracurricular being the responsible phenomenon for elevate the levels of physical fitness and health of adolescents.

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