Methodological Approaches to Talent Identification in Team Sports: A Narrative Review [PDF]
Sports, 2022 Talent identification (TID) and talent development (TD) continue to receive significant investment from team sports organisations, highlighting their importance in attempting to identify potential elite athletes.
Sam Barraclough +3 more
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Coaches’ Criteria for Talent Identification of Youth Male Soccer Players [PDF]
Sports, 2022 Introduction: The main aim of this study was to examine which criteria coaches considered in the talent identification of youth male soccer players aged 13–16.
Jan Fuhre +2 more
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Talent Identification and Development in Paralympic Contexts: Current Challenges [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 This short review explores the state of talent identification and development of athletes in Paralympic contexts. While talent identification typically occurs during adolescence, this practice is more complex and variable in Paralympic contexts compared ...
Nima Dehghansai +2 more
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Challenges and [Possible] Solutions to Optimizing Talent Identification and Development in Sport [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The modern-day landscape of Olympic and Professional sport is arguably more competitive than ever. One consequence of this is the increased focus on identifying and developing early athletic talent.
Kevin Till, Joseph Baker
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Environmental factors associated with talent identification of women's youth national team soccer players in the United States. [PDF]
PLoS ONEFemale soccer has seen an exponential growth in popularity leading to significant investment in talent identification and development processes. Soccer federations can only identify, develop, and select from a pool of players that are born within the ...
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Are youth sport talent identification and development systems necessary and healthy? [PDF]
Sports Medicine - Open, 2018 Talent identification and development systems (TIDS) are commonly used in professional sport to convert youth athletes into sporting stars of the future.
Fieke Rongen +3 more
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The effect of rhythm training on the motor coordination abilities of 8–12-year-old freestyle swimmers [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 This study aims to evaluate the effect of rhythm training in the early coordination development and to find out its role in the transfer of specific performance in young swimmers.
Xiaofeng Yin +6 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023 Introduction829 players from 32 nations on five continents participated in the 2022 men's World Cup tournament in Qatar. Not much is known about the youth careers of World Cup players from all over the world, especially about the age at which they began ...
Sebastiaan Willem-Jan Platvoet +5 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2021 The main aim of this study was to determine the agreement in classification between the modified KörperKoordinations Test für Kinder (KTK3+) and the Athletic Skills Track (AST) for measuring fundamental movement skill levels (FMS) in 6- to 12-year old ...
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Happy Birthday? Relative Age Benefits and Decrements on the Rocky Road
Sports, 2022 (1) Background: There is abundant literature in talent development investigating the relative age effect in talent systems. There is also growing recognition of the reversal of relative age advantage, a phenomenon that sees significantly higher numbers ...
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