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Title: | Differences in the Game Specific Skills of Elite and Sub-Elite Youth Football Players: Implications for Talent Identification |
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Contributor(s): | Waldron, Mark (author); Worsfold, Paul (author) |
Publication Date: | 2010 |
Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14638 |
Abstract: | The concept of multidimensional talent modelling offers a recent attempt to objectively identify sporting talent in adolescents, of which game specific skill assessment has become a significant dimension. Previous studies have used closed skill testing to assess 'open' skills in youth football players, often finding such measures to discriminate between elite and sub-elite groups. The current study used an example performance analysis template to; 1) Identify differences in performance indicators between pre-determined groups of elite and sub-elite performers during an open match environment; 2) Identify differences in performance indicators between positional groups of elite and sub-elite performers at separate levels of competition; 3) Individually identify sub-elite players compared to a normative profile of elite positional counterparts. Results from Mann-Whitney U testing suggested that elite players are significantly higher (p<0.0028) performers within 9 of 18 performance indicators. Comparisons refined by position and round of competition found only one indicator to distinguish between elite and sub-elite players. The use of a normative profiling method demonstrated how sub-elite players may be analysed relative to elite counterparts. Results are discussed in relation to the advantages of performance analysis as a preferred measure of game specific skills in the talent identification process. |
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Source of Publication: | International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 10(1), p. 9-24 |
Publisher: | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
Place of Publication: | United Kingdom |
ISSN: | 1474-8185 2474-8668 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 110699 Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970101 Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes |
HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
Publisher/associated links: | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwic/ujpa/2010/00000010/00000001/art00003 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Science and Technology |
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