Background Expertise has been extensively studied in several sports over recent years. The
specificities of how excellence is achieved in Association Football, a sport practiced …

This review aims to examine the most significant research regarding the development of
talent in sport, with a focus on the quantity and type of practice necessary for the attainment …

Objectives Talent identification traditionally relies on the knowledge and perceptions of
expert coaches to identify and predict potential future elite athletes. Experiential coach …

Talent selection has become an integral part of many nations' athlete development systems.
In this context, a coach often serves as a decision-maker, selecting or deselecting athletes …

Scouts of soccer clubs are often the first to identify talented players. However, there is a lack
of research on how these scouts assess and predict overall soccer performance. Therefore …

There remains limited understanding of the processes and factors which contribute to young
footballers being identified as talented. Talent identification is imperative for the …

Although talent selection in professional soccer mainly relies on the subjective judgment of
scouts and coaches, little is known to date about top-level soccer coaches' conceptions of …

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative approach concerned with
examining personal lived experience. It was developed in the 1990s to complement the …

The study aimed to establish the perceived importance that academy soccer practitioners
placed on technical/tactical, physical, psycho-social player attributes during player selection …

Succession planning is becoming a focus point for discussion in business world as very few
organisations are prepared with their successors for occupying the position as and when it is …