Background Does younger involvement in talent promotion programs (TPPs) facilitate the
attainment of higher performance levels? This question is the subject of the present meta …

There has been a longstanding debate about the question: What amounts of what types of
youth sport activities optimally facilitate later athletic excellence? This article provides a …

Background. The importance of predicting talents in children is so that hidden sports talents
have opportunities to be developed. Objectives. This study aims to predict the talent level of …

Talent development is a key topic in sport psychology research and practice. To evaluate
what we currently know about the development of talent, this systematic review used a two …

Tracking and measuring elements of performance is a well-established feature of practice in
football academies. Player characteristics are considered, tracked, and measured using a …

This study determined the contributors to soccer technical skills in grassroots youth soccer
players using a machine learning approach. One hundred and sixty-two boys aged 7 to 14 …

Many soccer federations and professional clubs worldwide have established talent
identification (TID) and talent promotion programmes (TPPs) at local, regional, and national …

The Aral Sea region (Uzbekistan) is infamous because of the ecological disaster
characterized by the disappearance of the Aral Sea due to excessive uncontrolled water …

One hundred and twenty-one children (58 boys and 63 girls) aged 8–14 years (mean±SD=
12±1 years) who were regularly engaged in grassroots soccer participated in this study …

The nature of the talent development environment, and key psychological attributes of the
players themselves (eg, self-regulated learning) can explain why some players realise their …