Talent identification and development in soccer

By A. Mark Williams, Thomas Reilly. Jurnal sport science, 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Genetics, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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Building Sport Programs to Optimize Athlete Recruitment, Retention, and Transition: Toward a Normative Theory of Sport Development (2005, positive): “Effective systems for training, motivating, and supporting athletes are better predictors of success than are any measures intended to identify talent (Hodges, Kerr, Starkes, Weir, & Nananidou, 2004; Williams & Reilly, 2000).”
The relative age effect in youth soccer across Europe (2005, background): “At present, it is difficult to support the notion that expertise in sport can be predicted on the basis of any specific measure of talent (Williams & Reilly, 2000).”
Psychological talent predictors in early adolescence and their empirical relationship with current and future performance in soccer (2016, background): “Regarding the multidimensional understanding of talent (Williams & Reilly, 2000), a large part of the research has considered a wide range of physical, physiological, sociological, and psychological characteristics, examining their relationship with soccer performance.”
Rethinking Giftedness and Talent in Sport (2006, methodology): “Therefore, talent detection, identifi cation, and development as defi ned by Williams and Reilly (2000) aim to detect, identify, and develop “future” talent.”
An appraisal of athlete development models through citation network analysis (2010, background): “Sport, Education and Society, 11, 211–230; Côté, J. (1999).”
“An Eye for Talent”: Talent Identification and the “Practical Sense” of Top-Level Soccer Coaches (2009, background): “(Harry) Although research (Morris, 2000; Williams & Reilly, 2000) examining the connection between psychological qualities and talent identification indicated essential problems in the use of traits as predictors in talent identification among young athletes, the current data show a strong link…”
The Standard Model of Talent Development and Its Discontents (2013, background): “Optimizing the trajectory from talent detection, to identification, through development to selection is a core construct in any sporting system (Williams & Reilly, 2000).”
Examining the Development Environments of Elite English Football Academies: The Players' Perspective (2014, background): “Indeed, Williams and Reilly [9] contend that the very term ‘talent development’ in football infers that young players are provided with an appropriate learning environment to translate their potential into excellence.”
The role of ecological constraints on expertise development (2010, background): “This is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of expertise in sports, which provides conceptualization beyond the limitations of existing research (see e.g., Williams & Reilly, 2000).”
Sport Psychology: Contemporary Themes (2004, background): “Such knowledge is relevant when designing appropriate training interventions, and for those involved in the process of talent identification and selection (Williams, 2000; Williams and Reilly, 2000).”
ISSP position stand: To test or not to test? The use of physical skill tests in talent detection and in early phases of sport development (2009, background): “…talent detection, early development, physical skill tests, individual sports, team sports, action situations Searching for talent and assessing early development are valuable stages in almost any multi-step sport program (Brown, 2001; Falk, Lidor, Lander, & Lang, 2004; Williams & Reilly, 2000).”
Identifying technical, physiological, tactical and psychological characteristics that contribute to career progression in soccer (2016, background): “Identification and selection of potential athletes have often been based on coaches’ or talent scouts’ subjective views.(3) In recent years, there has been increasing attempts to use scientific approaches to talent identification, including measures of physiological, technical, tactical, and psychol”
Towards a model of talent development in physical education (2006, neutral): “Recognition of the multiplicity of factors impacting upon an individual’s performance is less common in sporting contexts (although, see Williams and Reilly, 2000).”