Highlights•Exciting new multi-disciplinary studies offer unique insights to talent
identification.•Emergent statistical approaches help to uncover the best predictors of future …

Birthplace is a contextual variable that influences the talent development process of soccer
players. The main objective of this systematic review was to compile the scientific literature …

Previous studies have found significant differences in the likelihood of becoming an elite
athlete depending on community population sizes and densities, an effect known as the …

Aim: The aim of this paper is to verify how cities' demographic rates and Human
Development Index (HDI), as well as the birthdate of Brazilian elite soccer players …

Contextual influences on talent development (eg, birthplace effects) have become a topic of
interest for sport scientists. Birthplace effects occur when being born in a certain city size …

A large portion of previous sport talent development research has been conducted using
Western countries study subjects such as Canadian, Swedish, Spanish, British, or American …

The identification of sports talents has been scientifically studied exploring epidemiological
factors as predictors of success. Seeking to advance research of this nature, the present …

The birthplace (the place where an athlete was born) effect (BPE) has been found to be one
of the environmental variables associated with early talent development and the …

The aims of this study were two-fold:(1) to inspect separately for the relative age and
birthplace effects for players selected in the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft;(2) …

Talent development is a key topic in sport psychology research and practice. To evaluate
what we currently know about the development of talent, this systematic review used a two …