Buchwald, Lasse (2022) Many Paths, Many Outcomes – Dutch Youth Football players on their way to the senior level. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Youth soccer players often strive to play at a high senior club level in the future. So far, little research has been conducted on the developmental career patterns and their outcomes in regard to the senior club level. We therefore examined 3640 players and analyzed their involvement in youth academies and youth national teams. Based on a Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA), which is characterized by a holistic and person-centered approach was conducted to map such trajectories and discover pathways that are overrepresented (Types), thereby indicating a tendency where such pathways may lead to. We found that a long and early academy career are associated with professional levels in football. Additionally, if a long national team career was observed such a pattern has a very high likelihood of reaching the highest level in professional football, namely that of International country (appearance at EURO or World Cup). Interestingly, players that have never played for a youth national team are very likely to only play non-professional football. It may be concluded that individual pathways are highly individual and idiosyncratic. It was observed that one pathway could lead to multiple levels of football and further that different pathways can ultimately lead to the same level. Such findings suggest that talent development programs should consider the different possible trajectories and avoid one-size-fits-all strategies. Keywords: Development, Career patterns, Intra-individual, Longitudinal
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Hartigh, J.R. den |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2022 08:34 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2022 08:34 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/840 |
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