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2. A multidisciplinary investigation into the talent identification and development process in an English football academy
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Kelly, Adam Leigh, Wilson, Mark, and Williams, Craig
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796.332 ,Football ,Talent Identification ,Talent Development ,Academy ,Coaching - Abstract
Introduction: The purpose of a player development pathway is to realise the most effective methods to support young individuals to maximise their potential (MacNamara & Collins, 2015). Within a modern football academy setting, the essential developmental characteristics are often termed environmental, psychological, sociological, physiological, technical, and tactical attributes (Sarmento et al., 2018). Although these factors have been explained to independently facilitate the acquisition of expert performance, fully-integrated multidisciplinary evidence from an English context is unknown. Therefore, the aim of this study was two-fold; firstly, to analyse these respective features to determine what outcomes support greater age-specific performance within the Foundation Development Phase (FDP; under-9 to 11s) and Youth Development Phase (YDP; under-12 to 16s) at an English professional football academy. Following this investigation, this thesis examined what characteristics facilitated age-specific development across two football seasons within the same group. Methods: During the first season, a total of 98 outfield academy players (FDP n=40; YDP n=58) participated. Two professional coaches from each age group (n=14) ranked their players from top to bottom in relation to current ability from a holistic perspective. This created a linear classification with a group of ‘high-performers’ (top third) and ‘low-performers’ (bottom third) within both the FDP and YDP. Results were standardised using z-scores and the assumptions were tested using a two-tailed independent samples t-test. A total of 87 outfield players who progressed into the second season were further analysed within their respective phase (FDP n=36; YDP n=51). A combination of 34 holistic factors, that discriminated high- and low-performers in the initial investigation, were measured at two time points across two football seasons with the Participation History Questionnaire (PHQ), Psychological Characteristics for Developing Excellence Questionnaire (PCDEQ), socio-economic status, growth and maturation data, physical performance, technical tests, match analysis statistics, perceptual-cognitive expertise (PCE), and game test situations. Development was measured by comparing the delta change between the overall player profile scores from two seasonal reports. Stepwise regression analyses were conducted to assess the predictive capability of these variables on overall development. Results: Multiple factors from environmental, psychological, sociological, physiological, technical, and tactical examinations significantly discriminated high- and low-performers, within both the FDP and YDP. Following these initial findings, developmental results illustrated significant technical and tactical characteristics within the FDP, whilst significant environmental, physiological, technical, and tactical attributes were observed within the YDP. When focussing on these factors combined, total touches change (p=0.023), taking advantage of openings quality (p=0.003), and PCE ‘post’ score change (p=0.029) explained a combined 11.5% of the variance within the FDP. Within the YDP, PCE ‘at’ score (p=0.21), total sports played change (p=0.008), and total match-play hours (p=0.009) explained a combined 34.1% of the variance. Discussion: Identifying talented players as young as 8 years of age is a complex and holistic process. Thus, academy coaches and practitioners must understand the significant features, such as practice history and multi-sport engagement, psychological characteristics, socio-economic factors, physical performance abilities, technical attributes, and tactical decision making when identifying and recruiting individuals. From a talent development viewpoint, results from the FDP support the importance of technical and tactical development during middle childhood compared to other influential factors. From a YDP perspective, results support the significance of the environment players are exposed to, whilst also illustrating the importance of PCE as a key ingredient within adolescence, to support greater overall development. Therefore, professional football academies are encouraged to deliver technical and tactical specific developmental activities within the FDP, whilst offering a substantial games programme, alongside other opportunities to participate in multi-sport activities across both age phases, to support superior development. Further evidence is needed within an English context, through collaboration with other academy environments, to support these findings, whilst greater longitudinal data is also required to understand which of these characteristics are necessary to ultimately achieve senior professional status.
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3. Special Issue “Sports Science in Children”
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Coutinho, Diogo, primary, Travassos, Bruno, additional, Santos, Sara, additional, Figueiredo, Pedro, additional, and Kelly, Adam Leigh, additional
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- 2024
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4. Talent Identification and Development in Youth Sports.
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Kelly, Adam Leigh, Jiménez Sáiz, Sergio L., Kelly, Adam Leigh, Lorenzo Calvo, Alberto, and Santos, Sara
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Biology, life sciences ,Research & information: general ,Bayesian machine learning ,EPPP ,TID ,Winter Olympic Games ,academy soccer ,affective ,anthropometry ,athlete development ,athlete dropout ,athletic development ,batting ,birthplace ,bowling ,care ,challenge ,classification ,cognitive skills ,coherence ,competition level ,countermovement jump ,cross-country skiing ,deliberate play ,deliberate practice ,development ,developmental model of sport participation (DMSP) ,drafts ,early specialization ,early sports specialization ,elite performance ,elite sports ,elite youth athletes ,elite youth soccer ,endurance sport ,experiences of a sport psychologist ,expertise ,female ,fitness assessment ,football ,freeskiing ,grassroots ,growth and maturation ,handball ,ice hockey ,ice hockey expertise ,individual sports ,injury surveillance ,life skills ,long passes ,long-term athlete development ,longitudinal ,longitudinal dimensionality ,market value ,maturation ,milestones ,mixed methods ,motivational ,motor competence ,motor performance ,motor skill ,multidisciplinary ,n/a ,para-athletes development ,participation trends ,pattern recognition ,perceived competence ,performance ,performance assessment ,performance development ,performance diagnosis ,performance monitoring ,personal development ,physical ,physical activity ,physical characteristics ,physical performance ,positive youth development ,predicted adult height ,psychological characteristics ,psychological factors ,psychological literacy ,psychological safety ,psychology ,psychosocial development ,realist evaluation ,reception ,relative age effect ,relative age effects ,return of investment ,self-confidence sources ,self-efficacy ,soccer ,soccer players ,social identity ,socioeconomic ,specialization ,specific precision ,speed ,sport ,sport context ,sport development ,sport dropout ,sport expertise ,sport habits ,sport policy ,sport psychology ,sport psychology integration ,sports coaching ,sports school ,sprint ,strategic skills ,talent development ,talent identification ,talent selection ,talent transfer ,team sports ,technical and tactical ,technical skills ,technical test ,training responses ,young ,youth ,youth cricket ,youth rugby ,youth sport ,youth sport programs - Abstract
Summary: We are delighted to share our Special Issue on Talent Identification and Development in Youth Sports. In 2020, the editorial team had several informal discussions about the growing interest from researchers and practitioners in these disciplines, and subsequently wanted to create a platform to help advance this field of literature. Following these conversations, we decided to use the Personal Assets Framework (Côté et al., 2014, 2016) to outline our objectives and the potential research topics for our Special Issue. In doing so, it was hoped that the studies included can inform evidence-based youth sport policies and athlete development programmes. Submissions were encouraged from a diverse range of quantitative and qualitative research methods to examine the current context of talent identification and development in youth sports, as well as reviews to synthesise expert knowledge within these disciplines. In light of the articles that have been included within our Special Issue, we believe our initial aims of progressing the talent identification and development literature have been achieved, and now hope that the research presented can be utilised by key stakeholders (e.g., administrators, coaches, parents, practitioners) and organisational structures (e.g., national governing bodies, professional clubs, recreational teams, youth sport associations) to create more appropriate youth sport settings.
5. Career trajectories, transition rates, and birthdate distributions: the rocky road from youth to senior level in men's European football.
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Brustio, Paolo Riccardo, McAuley, Alexander B. T., Ungureanu, Alexandru Nicolae, and Kelly, Adam Leigh
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FOOTBALL players ,YOUTHS' attitudes ,TALENT development - Abstract
This study aimed to assess youth-to-senior transition rates, quantify the magnitude of relative age effect (RAEs), and evaluate how RAEs affect these transitions in 9,527 men's national football players of England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Regardless of national team, only-15%, 25%, and 40% of U17, U19, and U21 players successfully transitioned to the senior team, respectively, whilst-14%-24% progressed to senior level without being selected during youth. Data suggested a skewed birthdate distribution favouring relatively older players at U17, U19, and U21 levels across all countries, whereas RAEs were also present in England, Italy, and Spain at senior level. Youth-to-senior transition rates were modulated by birthdate at U17 and U19, whereby Q4 players were-2 and 1.5 times more likely to successfully transition at senior level than Q1 players, respectively. Selection at youth international level does not guarantee selection at senior level, but does make it more likely. Moreover, relatively younger athletes are disadvantaged in youth categories, although are more likely to transition to senior level once they have entered the pathway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Youth-to-senior transition in women’s and girls’ football: Towards a better understanding of relative age effects and gender-specific considerations
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Brustio, Paolo Riccardo, primary, Modena, Roberto, additional, Boccia, Gennaro, additional, Vogliazzo, Matteo, additional, and Kelly, Adam Leigh, additional
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- 2023
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7. Exploring the Effects of Tasks with Different Decision-Making Levels on Ball Control, Passing Performance, and External Load in Youth Football
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Coutinho, Diogo, primary, Kelly, Adam Leigh, additional, Santos, Sara, additional, Figueiredo, Pedro, additional, Pizarro, David, additional, and Travassos, Bruno, additional
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- 2023
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8. The Influence of Contextual Factors on the Relative Age Effect in Male International Rugby Union: The Impact of Sociocultural Influences and Playing Position
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Brustio, Paolo Riccardo, primary, Kelly, Adam Leigh, additional, Lupo, Corrado, additional, and Ungureanu, Alexandru Nicolae, additional
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- 2022
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9. Special Issue "Talent Identification and Development in Youth Sports".
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Kelly, Adam Leigh, Calvo, Alberto Lorenzo, dos Santos, Sara Diana Leal, and Jiménez Sáiz, Sergio Lorenzo
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TALENT development ,GIFTED children ,BIRTHPLACES ,SPORTS ,SCOUTING (Athletics) ,SPORTS participation ,OLDER athletes - Abstract
Another contextual factor studied that can influence the probability of an athlete participating in high-performance sport is their birthplace (i.e., where the athlete is born and raised). We are delighted to share our Special Issue on Talent Identification and Development in Youth Sports. Within our Special Issue, Maayan and colleagues [[11]] used a qualitative approach to explore athlete and coach perceptions of birthplace effects from a range of sports, revealing that growing up in cities of small and medium sizes was more beneficial than growing up in towns or cities of other sizes. Contextual Considerations Our Special Issue has supplemented the existing literature to show that contextual factors (e.g., age, gender, nationality, sport popularity, sport type) play an important role in talent identification and development. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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10. The Relative Age Effect on Competition Performance of Spanish International Handball Players: A Longitudinal Study
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de la Rubia, Alfonso, primary, Lorenzo, Alberto, additional, Bjørndal, Christian Thue, additional, Kelly, Adam Leigh, additional, García-Aliaga, Abraham, additional, and Lorenzo-Calvo, Jorge, additional
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- 2021
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11. Relative Age Effects in Basketball: Exploring the Selection into and Successful Transition Out of a National Talent Pathway
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Kelly, Adam Leigh, Jiménez Sáiz, Sergio, Lorenzo Calvo, Alberto, Rubia Riaza, Alfonso de la, Jackson, Daniel, Jeffreys, Mark, Owen, Dave, Leal dos Santos, Sara Diana, Kelly, Adam Leigh, Jiménez Sáiz, Sergio, Lorenzo Calvo, Alberto, Rubia Riaza, Alfonso de la, Jackson, Daniel, Jeffreys, Mark, Owen, Dave, and Leal dos Santos, Sara Diana
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Relative age effects (RAEs) appear consistently prevalent throughout the youth basketball literature. However, the selection into and successful transition out of a national talent pathway in basketball is yet to be explored. Thus, the primary aim of this study was to explore the influence of relative age, gender, and playing time based on the selection into the Regional Talent Hubs and Basketball England youth teams (U16, U18, and U20) and the successful transition into the England National Senior Teams. Participants who were selected into the male (n = 450) and female (n = 314) Basketball England Talent Pathway were allocated into one of three cohorts: (a) Regional Talent Hubs (U12 to U15; n = 183), (b) England National Youth Teams (U16, U18, and U20; n = 537), and (c) England National Senior Teams (n = 44). A chi-square test was used to compare the birth quarter (BQ) distributions of each cohort against the expected distributions, with a Cramer’s V (Vc) used to interpret effect sizes. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals were also calculated to compare the likelihood of each BQ being represented. Males revealed significant RAEs across both the Regional Talent Hubs (p < 0.001, Vc > 0.29, OR = 10) and England National Youth Teams (p < 0.001, Vc > 0.17, OR = 3.1). In comparison, females only had significant RAEs in the Regional Talent Hubs (p < 0.001, Vc > 0.29, OR = 2.3). Despite RAEs being prevalent throughout youth levels, there were no significant differences in the BQ distribution based on playing time and those who made the successful transition to the England National Senior Teams. These findings demonstrate the potential mechanisms of RAEs in basketball, as well as the impetus to explore more equitable competition structures within the England Basketball Talent Pathway.
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- 2021
12. The Relative Age Effect on Competition Performance of Spanish International Handball Players: A Longitudinal Study
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Rubia Riaza, Alfonso de la, Lorenzo Calvo, Alberto, Bjorndal, Christian Thue, Kelly, Adam Leigh, García Aliaga, Abraham, Lorenzo Calvo, Jorge, Rubia Riaza, Alfonso de la, Lorenzo Calvo, Alberto, Bjorndal, Christian Thue, Kelly, Adam Leigh, García Aliaga, Abraham, and Lorenzo Calvo, Jorge
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Methods: The sample included 631 Spanish handball players (male: n = 359; female: n = 272). A Chi-square goodness-of-fit test was used to assess whether a skewed birthdate distribution occurred. A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) of independent measures was used to examine the individual and collective statistical parameters by birth quartiles. A linear regression in a Hopkins sheet were performed to compare individual performance trends. Results: The results revealed RAE in the male formative categories (p < 0.001), as well as the male and female senior categories (p < 0.05). By position, RAE especially affected the “centre-back” in the male formative (p < 0.01) and senior categories (p < 0.05). No significant relationship between RAE and individual performance was found in male formative categories, while an impact of RAE on the “minutes played” was detected in the female senior category (p < 0.05). With regard to collective performance, a higher number of relatively older handball players was observed in the best ranked teams in the male formative categories and in the quarter-final teams in the female formative categories (p < 0.05). Among the male players, relatively older players spent more minutes on the court than relatively younger players, although this advantage dissipated over time and did not lead to better performance. Among the female players, relatively younger players were found to perform better as the level of competitive handball increased. Discussion: These findings are important for talent identification and development policies in sport federations and other elite sport institutions by demonstrating the many unintended consequences of selections to international competitions at the youth level.
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- 2021
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