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Nurture, nature and some very dubious social skills: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of talent identification practices in elite English youth soccer

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Pages 642-662 | Received 19 Aug 2014, Accepted 23 Jan 2015, Published online: 23 Feb 2015

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