Methodological Approaches to Talent Identification in Team Sports: A Narrative Review

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Abstract

Talent identification (TID) and talent development (TD) continue to receive significant investment from team sports organisations, highlighting their importance in attempting to identify potential elite athletes. Accompanying this continual pursuit to unearth future talent is an ever-increasing body of research aiming to provide solutions and strategies to optimise TID and TD processes. Therefore, the aim of this review is to provide a summary and critical synthesis of the methodological approaches applied to TID in team sports and present considerations for future TID research. Specifically, this review highlights three key areas for consideration: (1) the timespan of the research design; (2) the use of monodisciplinary or multidisciplinary variables; and (3) the fidelity of the methodological approaches to the assessment of talent. The review highlights the benefits of longitudinal, multidisciplinary, and ecologically valid research designs for TID within team sports.

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Barraclough, A. S., Till, K., Kerr, A., & Emmonds, S. (2022, June 1). Methodological Approaches to Talent Identification in Team Sports: A Narrative Review. Sports. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/sports10060081

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