“…Achieving this level of extensive social support and family involvement has the potential to keep young basketball players in the club throughout childhood and adolescence, potentially serving as future elite players (Baker, Deakin, & Cote, 2005;Côté et al, 2009;FraserThomas et al, 2010;Galatti, 2010;Henriksen et al, 2010Henriksen et al, , 2011MacDonald et al, 2011;Strachan et al, 2011), and increasing the possibility of lifelong sport participation (Côté et al, 2013;Silva, Galatti, & Paes, 2010). Thus, offering youth academies must go beyond the formation of professional athletes; it must promote human development in children and teenagers who seek the sport through an institutionalized extracurricular educational process (Côté et al, 2009;Fraser-Thomas et al, 2008;Paes & Galatti, 2013;Strachan et al, 2011).…”