From Junior to Elite in Soccer: Exploring the Relative Age Effect and Talent Selection in Spanish Youth National Teams [PDF]
Children, 2022 The implications of relative age grouping in sport are known as the Relative Age Effect (RAE). This study has the twofold purpose of analyzing RAE in Spanish youth national soccer teams and examining the prediction value of being selected for national ...
Javier García-Rubio +4 more
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Waste Reduction Strategies: Factors Affecting Talent Wastage and the Efficacy of Talent Selection in Sport [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Coaches are faced with the difficult task of identifying and selecting athletes to their team. Despite its widespread practice in sport, there is still much to learn about improving the identification and selection process.
Kathryn Johnston, Joseph Baker
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Talent selection in 3 × 3 basketball: role of anthropometrics, maturation, and motor performance [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingIntroduction3 × 3 basketball is becoming more and more professionalized, which is leading to a growing interest in talent development and talent selection.
Tim Luca Schmitz +2 more
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Talent selection in youth football
Current Issues in Sport Science, 2019 Recommended multidimensional models for talent selection are difficult to implement for practitioners in the field. Furthermore, their application has not been established from a scientific point of view, with a lack of clarity concerning how to ...
Roland Sieghartsleitner +4 more
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Investigating coaches’ general beliefs on defining and identifying talent in basketball [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyCoaches have various challenging tasks to handle, including athlete development and selection. Selection decisions are often based on the coach’s eye. That is, coaches use their experience and intuition to generate holistic and subjective evaluations of ...
Till Koopmann +2 more
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2008 The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound.
Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur
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“More players can reach national and international levels”: coaches perceptions of “birthday-banding” in youth squash and its potential for minimising relative age effects [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingRelative age effects (RAEs) are common across many youth sports that use age group structures to band athletes. This creates a significant overrepresentation of those who are born near the start of the selection cut-off date across talent pathways ...
Adam L. Kelly +7 more
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Talent Selection in Portuguese National Futsal Teams. [PDF]
J Hum KinetThis study investigated the talent selection processes implemented in youth and adult national futsal teams. The initial database provided by the Portuguese Football Federation included 668 male futsal players, and statistical analysis was conducted with varying sample sizes.
Mendes D +5 more
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Talent selection and genetics in sport
Türk Spor ve Egzersiz Dergisi, 2014 Whether the performance demonstrated by talented sportsmen is hereditary or acquired later has become subject of research for physical education and sport scientists from past to present.
Bahtiyar Ozcaldıran +3 more
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The (dis-)connection between selection research in sports and business literature – a citation network analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologySports associations and companies share a common goal of identifying and selecting top talent, prompting a growing interest in refining their selection processes.
Birte Brinkmöller +4 more
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