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Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway

Background: The aim of this study was to examine junior-elite football players’ perception of their talent development environment by comparing clubs ranked as the top-five and bottom-five in the 2017 Norwegian academy classification. Methods: In total, 92 male junior-elite football players recruite...

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Autores principales: Gangsø, Kristian, Aspvik, Nils Petter, Mehus, Ingar, Høigaard, Rune, Sæther, Stig Arve
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7908418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33535697
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18031321
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author Gangsø, Kristian
Aspvik, Nils Petter
Mehus, Ingar
Høigaard, Rune
Sæther, Stig Arve
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Aspvik, Nils Petter
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description Background: The aim of this study was to examine junior-elite football players’ perception of their talent development environment by comparing clubs ranked as the top-five and bottom-five in the 2017 Norwegian academy classification. Methods: In total, 92 male junior-elite football players recruited from under-19 teams from five professional football club academies took part in the study. The Talent Development Environment Questionnaire (TDEQ-5; Martindale et al. 2010) was used to measure the players’ perceptions of their team environment. Results: The subscale long-term development focus and support network had the highest score and indicated that they perceived that the environment was high quality with respect to those factors. Players from the top-five-ranked clubs perceived their development environments to be significantly more positive with respect to holistic quality preparation, alignment of expectations, communication and, compared to players from the bottom-five-ranked clubs. Conclusions: The players’ perceptions of the talent development environment seem to be in alignment of the academy classification undertaken by the Norwegian top football association.
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spelling pubmed-79084182021-02-27 Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway Gangsø, Kristian Aspvik, Nils Petter Mehus, Ingar Høigaard, Rune Sæther, Stig Arve Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: The aim of this study was to examine junior-elite football players’ perception of their talent development environment by comparing clubs ranked as the top-five and bottom-five in the 2017 Norwegian academy classification. Methods: In total, 92 male junior-elite football players recruited from under-19 teams from five professional football club academies took part in the study. The Talent Development Environment Questionnaire (TDEQ-5; Martindale et al. 2010) was used to measure the players’ perceptions of their team environment. Results: The subscale long-term development focus and support network had the highest score and indicated that they perceived that the environment was high quality with respect to those factors. Players from the top-five-ranked clubs perceived their development environments to be significantly more positive with respect to holistic quality preparation, alignment of expectations, communication and, compared to players from the bottom-five-ranked clubs. Conclusions: The players’ perceptions of the talent development environment seem to be in alignment of the academy classification undertaken by the Norwegian top football association. MDPI 2021-02-01 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7908418/ /pubmed/33535697 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18031321 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Høigaard, Rune
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Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway
title Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway
title_full Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway
title_fullStr Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway
title_full_unstemmed Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway
title_short Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway
title_sort talent development environments in football: comparing the top-five and bottom-five-ranked football academies in norway
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7908418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33535697
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18031321
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