Challenges and Prospects of Football Talent Identification and Development Process in Gamogofa Zone – The Case in Arba Minch Town
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2012-10
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
Talent identification is a complex but important issue in competitive sport,
especially in sports like football in which the ability to identify talent has
significant commercial implications for clubs and players. However, little is
known about how coaches conceptualize talent to identify athletes for
successful performance. With this in mind the purpose of this research paper
was to investigate the challenges of talent identification and development process
in Arbaminch. Hence data were gathered through questionnaire and interview.
The in formations collected from the aforementioned tools were subjected to both
qualitative [using coding], and quantitatively [using tables and percentages]. The
result of the analysis shows as there are various challenges such as lack of
appropriate and adequate support by the concerned body, lack of competition,
provision of materials and equipments were among the reasons that drag the
process of talent development backward in Arbaminch.
Key terms: Talent identification, talent development, talent detection,
talent selection
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Talent Identification; Talent Development; Talent Detection; Talent Selection