Multivariate analyses of individual variation in soccer skill as a tool for talent identification and development: utilising evolutionary theory in sports science

References

• Ali, A. (2011). Measuring soccer skill performance: A review. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 21(2), 170–183. doi:10.1111/J.1600-0838.2010.01256.X
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ali, A., Foskett, A., & Gant, N. (2008). Validation of a soccer skill test for use with females. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 29(11), 917–921. doi:10.1055/S-2008-1038622
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ali, A., Williams, C., Hulse, M., Strudwick, A., Reddin, J., Howarth, L., … McGregor, S. (2007). Reliability and validity of two tests of soccer skill. Journal of Sports Sciences, 25(13), 1461–1470. doi:10.1080/02640410601150470
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arnold, S. J. (1983). Morphology, performance and fitness. American Zoologist, 23(2), 347–361. doi:10.1093/icb/23.2.347
   Google Scholar
• Bell, A. M., Hankison, S. J., & Laskowski, K. L. (2009). The repeatability of behaviour: A meta-analysis. Animal Behaviour, 77(4), 771–783. doi:10.1016/J.Anbehav.2008.12.022
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bennett, A. F., & Huey, R. B. (1990). Studying the evolution of physical performance. Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology, 7, 251–284.
   Google Scholar
• Bloomfield, J., Polman, R., & O’Donoghue, P. (2007). Physical demands of different positions in FA premier league soccer. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 6(1), 63–70.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boake, C. R. B. (1989). Correlations between courtship success, aggressive success, and body size in a picture-winged fly, drosophila-silvestris. Ethology, 80(1–4), 318–329. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1989.tb00750.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carling, C., Le Gall, F., Reilly, T., & Williams, A. M. (2009). Do anthropometric and fitness characteristics vary according to birth date distribution in elite youth academy soccer players? Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 19(1), 3–9. doi:10.1111/J.1600-0838.2008.00867.X
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Christensen, M. K. (2009). “An eye for talent”: Talent identification and the “practical sense” of top-level soccer coaches. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26, 365–382.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dardouri, W., Selmi, M. A., Sassi, R. H., Gharbi, Z., Rebhi, A., & Moalla, W. (2014). Reliability and discriminative power of soccer-specific field tests and skill index in young soccer players. Science & Sports, 29(2), 88–94. doi:10.1016/J.Scispo.2013.06.004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Figueiredo, A. J., Coelho e Silva, M. J., & Malina, R. M. (2011). Predictors of functional capacity and skill in youth soccer players. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 21, 446–454. doi:10.1111/sms.2011.21.issue-3
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gil, S. M., Gil, J., Ruiz, F., Irazusta, A., & Irazusta, J. (2007). Physiological and anthropometric characteristics of young soccer players according to their playing position: Relevance for the selection process. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 21(2), 438–445.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hamilton, M. B. (2009). Population genetics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
   Google Scholar
• Honer, O., Votteler, A., Schmid, M., Schultz, F., & Roth, K. (2015). Psychometric properties of the motor diagnostics in the German football talent identification and development programme. Journal of Sports Sciences, 33(2), 145–159. doi:10.1080/02640414.2014.928416
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Huijgen, B. C. H., Elferink-Gemser, M. T., Post, W., & Visscher, C. (2010). Development of dribbling in talented youth soccer players aged 12–19 years: A longitudinal study. Journal of Sports Sciences, 28, 689–698. doi:10.1080/02640411003645679
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Husak, J. F. (2006). Does survival depend on how fast you can run or how fast you do run? Functional Ecology, 20(6), 1080–1086. doi:10.1111/J.1365-2435.2006.01195.X
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jayne, B. C., & Bennett, A. F. (1990). Selection on locomotor performance capacity in a natural-population of garter snakes. Evolution, 44(5), 1204–1229. doi:10.2307/2409283
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kleim, J. A., Barbay, S., Cooper, N. R., Hogg, T. M., Reidel, C. N., Remple, M. S., & Nudo, R. J. (2002). Motor learning-dependent synaptogenesis is localized to functionally reorganized motor cortex. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 77(1), 63–77. doi:10.1006/nlme.2000.4004
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Le Gall, F., Carling, C., Williams, M., & Reilly, T. (2010). Anthropometric and fitness characteristics of international, professional and amateur male graduate soccer players from an elite youth academy. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 13(1), 90–95. doi:10.1016/J.Jsams.2008.07.004
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lessells, C. M., & Boag, P. T. (1987). Unrepeatable repeatabilities: A common mistake. The Auk, 104(1), 116–121. doi:10.2307/4087240
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Malina, R. M., Cumming, S. P., Kontos, A. P., Eisenmann, J. C., Ribeiro, B., & Aroso, J. (2005). Maturity-associated variation in sport-specific skills of youth soccer players aged 13-15 years. Journal of Sports Sciences, 23(5), 515–522. doi:10.1080/02640410410001729928
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Meylan, C., Cronin, J., Oliver, J., & Hughes, M. (2010). Reviews: Talent identification in soccer: The role of maturity status on physical, physiological and technical characteristics. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 5(4), 571–592. doi:10.1260/1747-9541.5.4.571
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miles, D. B. (2004). The race goes to the swift: Fitness consequences of variation in sprint performance in juvenile lizards. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6(1), 63–75.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nudo, R. J., Milliken, G. W., Jenkins, W. M., & Merzenich, M. M. (1996). Use-dependent alterations of movement representations in primary motor cortex of adult squirrel monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience, 16(2), 785–807.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Phillips, E., Davids, K., Renshaw, I., & Portus, M. (2010). Expert performance in sport and the dynamics of talent development. Sports Medicine, 40(4), 271–283. doi:10.2165/11319430-000000000-00000
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pienaar, A. E., & Spamer, M. J. (1998). A longitudinal study of talented young rugby players as regards their rugby skills, physical and motor abilities and anthropometric data. Journal of Human Movement Studies, 34(1), 13–32.
   Google Scholar
• Pienaar, A. E., Spamer, M. J., & Steyn Jr, H. S. (1998). Identifying and developing rugby talent among 10-year-old boys: A practical model. Journal of Sports Sciences, 16(8), 691–699. doi:10.1080/026404198366326
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rampinini, E., Impellizzeri, F. M., Castagna, C., Coutts, A. J., & Wisloff, U. (2009). Technical performance during soccer matches of the Italian Serie a league: Effect of fatigue and competitive level. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 12(1), 227–233. doi:10.1016/J.Jsams.2007.10.002
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reilly, T., Williams, A. M., Nevill, A., & Franks, A. (2000). A multidisciplinary approach to talent identification in soccer. Journal of Sports Sciences, 18(9), 695–702. doi:10.1080/02640410050120078
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Remple, M. S., Bruneau, R. M., VandenBerg, P. M., Goertzen, C., & Kleim, J. A. (2001). Sensitivity of cortical movement representations to motor experience: Evidence that skill learning but not strength training induces cortical reorganization. Behavioural Brain Research, 123(2), 133–141. doi:10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00199-1
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rostgaard, T., Iaia, F. M., Simonsen, D. S., & Bangsbo, J. (2008). A test to evaluate the physical impact on technical performance in soccer. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 22(1), 283–292. doi:10.1519/Jsc.0b013e31815f302a
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tucker, R., & Collins, M. (2012). What makes champions? A review of the relative contribution of genes and training to sporting success. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 46(8), 555–561. doi:10.1136/Bjsports-2011-090548
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Unnithan, V., White, J., Georgiou, A., Iga, J., & Drust, B. (2012). Talent identification in youth soccer. Journal of Sports Sciences, 30(15), 1719–1726. doi:10.1080/02640414.2012.731515
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vaeyens, R., Lenoir, M., Williams, A. M., & Philippaerts, R. M. (2008). Talent identification and development programmes in sport - Current models and future directions. Sports Medicine, 38(9), 703–714. doi:10.2165/00007256-200838090-00001
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vaeyens, R., Malina, R. M., Janssens, M., Van Renterghem, B., Bourgois, J., Vrijens, J., & Philippaerts, R. M. (2006). A multidisciplinary selection model for youth soccer: The Ghent youth soccer project. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 40(11), 928–934. doi:10.1136/Bjsm.2006.029652
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Waldron, M. W. (2010). Differences in the game specific skills of elite and sub-elite youth football players: Implications for talent identification. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 10, 9–24.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williams, A. M., & Drust, B. (2012). Contemporary perspectives on talent identification and development in soccer. Journal of Sports Sciences, 30(15), 1571–1572. doi:10.1080/02640414.2012.737109
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williams, A. M., & Ford, P. R. (2009). Promoting a skills-based agenda in Olympic sports: The role of skill-acquisition specialists. Journal of Sports Sciences, 27(13), 1381–1392. doi:10.1080/02640410902874737
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williams, A. M., & Reilly, T. (2000). Talent identification and development in soccer. Journal of Sports Sciences, 18(9), 657–667. doi:10.1080/02640410050120041
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson, A. M., Lowe, J. C., Roskilly, K., Hudson, P. E., Golabek, K. A., & McNutt, J. W. (2013). Locomotion dynamics of hunting in wild cheetahs. Nature, 498(7453), 185–189. doi:10.1038/Nature12295
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson, R. S., Hammill, E., & Johnston, I. A. (2007). Competition moderates the benefits of thermal acclimation to reproductive performance in male eastern mosquitofish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 274(1614), 1199–1204. doi:10.1098/Rspb.2006.0401
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson, R. S., Niehaus, A. C., David, G., Hunter, A., & Smith, M. (2014). Does individual quality mask the detection of performance trade-offs? A test using analyses of human physical performance. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217(4), 545–551. doi:10.1242/Jeb.092056
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zelenka, V., Zelenka, V., & Ondrej, O. (1967). Specific function testing of young football players. Journal of Sports and Medical Physical Fitness, 7, 143–147.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar