Investigating the relationship between football-specific DT performance and coach-rated talent status in a longitudinal design
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Investigate the relationship between football-specific DT performance and coach-rated talent status in a longitudinal design. Examine the effects of training programs aimed at improving football-specific DT performance on coach-rated talent status. Explore the generalizability of the findings to female football players and other age groups.
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Sourced from the future work and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2025 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 5 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Multidimensional performance characteristics of youth academy and club soccer players (2026) · PLOS One · doi
Future progress in this field requires longitudinal multidimensional research with repeated measurements of maturation status, physical performance, psychological skills, motivation, and cognitive assessments (both laboratory and soccer specific). Including training exposure and load, nutritional, contextual and psychological factors (coach behaviors, climate, parental pressure) and health markers, could clarify how these factors are connected and shape development. Using longitudinal models can help separate true developmental changes from selection effects, giving a clearer picture of how different factors develop together over time. This may contribute to more informed and less premature approaches to talent identification and selection.
generalfuture workevidence 5/5Keywords: factors longitudinal psychological selection future progress field requires multidimensional repeated measurements maturation status physical performance - Thinking While Playing: Football-Specific Dual-Task Performance and Coach-Rated Talent in Youth Football (2026) · Sports · doi
Investigate the relationship between football-specific DT performance and coach-rated talent status in a longitudinal design. Examine the effects of training programs aimed at improving football-specific DT performance on coach-rated talent status. Explore the generalizability of the findings to female football players and other age groups.
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5Keywords: investigate relationship between football-specific performance coach-rated talent status - Passion, Motivation, and Subjective Well-Being in Sport for People with Disabilities (2025) · Healthcare · cited 5× · doi
longitudinal research to establish causal relationships and explore the dynamic development of psychological processes, - exploring models of mediation (e.g., the mediating role of basic psychological needs), - looking into each type of regulation individually to better discern subtle patterns of motivation, - stratification to distinguish the joint operation of age-related distinctions from motivational/emotional processes within adapted sport
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5Keywords: longitudinal research establish causal relationships explore dynamic development
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