Experienced academy soccer coaches’ perspectives on players’ skilfulness
William McCalman,
Scott G Goddard,
Job Fransen
et al.
Abstract:Introduction: Soccer coaches are critical to academies as they are central to identifying players with the potential to succeed (i.e., talent). Research suggests coaches perceive skill as determining players' potential. Regardless, researchers only broadly explored their views and quantified players' skill using objective measures, which is problematic as coaches still rely on their subjective intuition. A plausible reason is that skill assessments do not meet coaches' needs. Objective: So,this study explored … Show more
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