From childhood to senior professional football: A multi-level approach to elite youth football players’ engagement in football-specific activities

Haugaasen, Mathias; Toering, Tynke; Jordet, Geir

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2014.02.007

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“…Th is player' ambition could be expected to be accompanied by a sole focus on their main sport, but, at the time of the study, no diff erences were found in terms of the number of sports they had participated in. Th is was also confi rmed by an earlier study (Haugaasen et al, 2014a).…”

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“…With regard to the number of sports in which players had participated, results from earlier studies indicate that there were no diff erences between players obtaining a senior professional contract and non-professional players (Haugaasen, Toering, & Jordet, 2014b), as was also shown in other similar studies (Ford et al, 2012). Later research has also shown that the amount of training cannot be taken as a predictor of future success since players obtaining a senior professional contract were not found to train more than non-professional players in their youth (Haugaasen, Toering, & Jordet, 2014a).…”

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confidence: 76%

“…However, the non-professional players trained close to signifi cantly more in self-organized settings, indicating that these players compensate with self-organized training. However, a recent study found no diff erences in training amount when comparing players that had obtained a senior professional contract with non-professional players did, indicating that this is a poor predictor of future success (Haugaasen et al, 2014a). From the players' overall training amount, one could argue that the main diff erence is the type of training (professional versus non-professional) is important, not the amount.…”

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Characteristics of Professional and Non-Professional Football Players – An Eight-Year Follow-Up of Three Age Cohorts

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Identifi cation of the most talented youth players is regarded as a key part of the talent development process in football. Th e basis for the criteria is naturally aff ected by the characteristics of the early-detected talented players. Nonetheless, earlier research has found limited evidenced for diff erent criteria in this process. Th is study has examined whether professional and non-professional football players showed diff erences in player and coach characteristics as talented youth-level players eight years earlier. A total of 103 players selected for Norwegian youth national teams (age cohorts 1991-1993) participated in this study. Based on player and coach characteristics, the results showed that non-professional players had the most playing time and felt more successful in comparison to the professional players. Th e professional players, however, reported higher ambitions and a higher number of weekly-organized training sessions. No diff erences between the professional and non-professional players showed in terms of their relationship to their coaches were found. Th e study concludes that we need more research on identifi cation criteria to be able to predict which abilities and skills should be sought in the identifi cation process for youth-level players. As in earlier research, this study also found a poor relationship between youth performance and senior performance.

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Characteristics of Professional and Non-Professional Football Players – An Eight-Year Follow-Up of Three Age Cohorts

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“…In football there is relatively solid evidence for the importance of participating in large amounts of football-specific practice to reach elite youth and senior levels (Ford, Ward, Hodges, & Williams, 2009;Haugaasen, Toering, & Jordet, 2014;Helsen, Starkes, & Hodges, 1998;Ward, Hodges, Starkes, & Williams, 2007). In their review of expertise development in football, Haugaasen and Jordet (2012) pointed out that the knowledge about how participating in other activities may contribute to football players' development is inadequate to draw clear conclusions.…”

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From childhood to senior professional football: elite youth players’ engagement in non-football activities

Haugaasen

Toering

Jordet

2014

Journal of Sports Sciences

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Despite the large amount of research available on how engagement in football practice relates to future performance level among football players, similar information about the contribution of non-football activities is scarce. Based on data from 745 elite youth players this study aimed to identify the characteristics and contribution of diverse participation towards elite youth and senior professional status. The data were collected using a retrospective questionnaire where the players reported the amount of time spent in other sports than football, in addition to their perceived contribution of different non-football activities for developing football skills. The accumulated hours of time spent in other sports of players who had obtained a senior professional contract were compared to non-professional players, using multilevel modelling (n = 558), while a t-test compared the activity ratings to each other. No significant differences were identified between professional and non-professional players' engagement history, but overall, the players rated sports similar to football to be significantly more relevant for developing football skills than other sports. The results suggests that spending time in non-football activities did not contribute to present differences in performance attainment in football, but also that potential advantages of such activities may be related to their characteristics.

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“…In fact, in recent years, Psychology of Sport and Exercise has established a tradition in publishing articles in this field (e.g., developmental perspectives, Haugaasen, Toering, & Jordet, 2014; individual differences in skills, Loffing & Hagemann, 2014;Lorains, Ball, & MacMahon, 2013;learning and training interventions, Toner, Moran, & Jackson, 2013;Frank, Land, & Schack, 2013).…”

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From childhood to senior professional football: A multi-level approach to elite youth football players’ engagement in football-specific activities

Cited by 61 publications

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Characteristics of Professional and Non-Professional Football Players – An Eight-Year Follow-Up of Three Age Cohorts

Characteristics of Professional and Non-Professional Football Players – An Eight-Year Follow-Up of Three Age Cohorts

From childhood to senior professional football: elite youth players’ engagement in non-football activities

Special issue of Psychology of Sport and Exercise ‘The development of expertise and excellence in sport psychology’

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