Background Expertise has been extensively studied in several sports over recent years. The
specificities of how excellence is achieved in Association Football, a sport practiced …

Within the multidimensional nature of soccer talent, recently there has been an increasing
interest in psychological characteristics. The aim of this present research was to …

Objectives This study examined the relationship of talented soccer players' psychological
characteristics with current and future performance. Design Both a cross-sectional and a …

Pacing has been characterized as a multifaceted goal-directed process of decision making
in which athletes need to decide how and when to invest their energy during the race, a …

Objectives The main aim of this study was to identify the development of engagement in
football-specific activities of elite youth association football (soccer) players who have made …

In sport, athletes engage in large amounts of practice to reach higher levels of performance.
Self-regulated learning (SRL) could be critical for optimizing training conditions and …

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of bio-banding on indicators of talent
identification in academy soccer players. Seventy-two 11 to 14-year-old soccer players were …

Objectives With an overarching aim of investigating the importance of group perceptions on
factors believed to underpin the quantity and quality of athletic practice, the purpose of the …

The process of grouping children by biological maturity, rather than age, was first considered
in relation to child labour laws in the early 1800s (Malina et al. 2019). The concept of a …

Elite athletes have invested many years in training and competition to reach the elite level.
One very important factor on the road to elite performance is the decision-making process …