The specificity versus generality of ball-handling skills – Empirical evidence for a general ball-handling ability

Rylander, Pär; Karlsteen, M.; Kougioumtzis, Konstantin; Gustafsson, Jan‐Eric

doi:10.1016/j.humov.2019.05.024

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“…On the other hand, in soccer, observed at elementary-school age a lower prognostic validity of sport-specific skill tests compared with generic physical or physiological tests, which the authors attributed to the higher difficulty of technical tests and the short time span of soccerspecific education. In order to do justice to the multidimensional character of football performance , in future studies at primary school age, the general tests should be supplemented, if not by football-specific tests, then at least by semi-specific tests to test fundamental ball-handling skills (Rylander et al, 2019). Despite such concerns, it is obvious that research has to be extended to the early age group of elementary-school children, as have reported recently that a substantial fraction of worldwide youth soccer academies have installed talent identification systems at the age group level of 8 to 11 year-old players already.…”

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Talent Identification and Development in Sports Performance

2022

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“…On the other hand, in soccer, Hohmann et al (2018) observed at elementary-school age a lower prognostic validity of sport-specific skill tests compared with generic physical or physiological tests, which the authors attributed to the higher difficulty of technical tests and the short time span of soccerspecific education. In order to do justice to the multidimensional character of football performance (Huijgen et al, 2010), in future studies at primary school age, the general tests should be supplemented, if not by football-specific tests, then at least by semi-specific tests to test fundamental ball-handling skills (Rylander et al, 2019). Despite such concerns, it is obvious that research has to be extended to the early age group of elementary-school children, as Ford et al (2020) have reported recently that a substantial fraction of worldwide youth soccer academies have installed talent identification systems at the age group level of 8 to 11 year-old players already.…”

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Talent Identification in Youth Soccer: Prognosis of U17 Soccer Performance on the Basis of General Athleticism and Talent Promotion Interventions in Second-Grade Children

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2021

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Several talent identification programs in elementary school have implemented motor diagnostics to introduce children to groups of sports, like game sports, or even to particular sports like soccer. However, as in most other sports, in youth soccer, the predictive value of such early testing is still unclear. This prospective study evaluated the midterm prognostic validity of generic motor performance tests. The sample consisted of male second-grade children, which had received a recommendation to participate in soccer. The talent screening campaign was a basic check comprising two anthropometric parameters, five physical fitness, and three motor competence diagnostics of the German Motor Test 6–18. The test data were collected from the participating elementary school classes of the years 2010 to 2014. The soccer competition performance of those children having completed the age of at least 15 years (n = 502) up to the end of the season 2019/2020 (2020, September 30) was recorded. This group of U17 players was then assigned individually to five different competition levels. The prognostic validity of the physical and physiological tests was determined using ANOVAs, odds ratios, and a regression path analysis. All diagnostic methods exhibited medium-to-high prognostic validity over the 8 year time span from the talent screening to the later soccer competitions in the adolescent age groups. For later success in soccer on the province level, the 6-min run (OR = 4.28), dynamic balance (OR = 4.04), and 20-m sprint (OR = 2.46), as well as the participation in the training center of the German Soccer Federation (OR = 5.67) and the diversity of club sport activities (OR = 3.56), were of particular importance.

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“…On the other hand, previous studies on skill transfer show that a transfer is possible based on an underlying general motor ability and training can have an effect on trained and untrained skills (Behringer, vom Heede, Matthews, & Mester, 2011;Farhat et al, 2016;Rylander, Karlsteen, Kougioumtzis, & Gustafsson, 2019). In sports, this perhaps becomes most obvious when taking into account the evidence of successful transfers between sports on the elite level (Collins, Collins, MacNamara, & Jones, 2014).…”

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