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Objectives: (1) To identify morphological and functional differences of athletes from teams with different performances; (2) To study the association between morphological attributes, strength and power of lower limbs with agility; and (3) identify the attributes that allow predicting the performance evaluation of agility. Methods: The participants were 25 professional athletes, two Portuguese elite teams (1) Group 1, athletes ranked in 1st place (n = 12) team; and (2) Group 2, athletes ranked in 14th place (n = 13) team. The athletes were evaluated on two dimensions: (1) morphology (height, body mass, relative fat mass, FM %); and (2) strength and power of the lower limbs (vertical jumps: Squat jump, SJ, countermovement jump, CMJ), and agility test (zig-zag). Results: (1) No significant differences were observed between performance groups; and (2) considering all participants, there were significant correlations between performance on the agility test and weight (r = 0.495, p = 0.012) and% BF (r = 0.471, p = 0.017). Finally, linear regression has revealed that 38.7% of the variation in performance of these athletes, in agility test, can be explained by the relative fat mass (48%, p = 0.006), age (36%, p = 0.015) and average power of SJ (16%, p> 0,05). Conclusions: In Futsal elite athletes, (1) the age and morphology appear to have significant effect on agility; and (2) the power of the lower limbs determine by vertical jumps, have an explanatory weak power of results in zig-zag test. 

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