How sports talent management can benefit your children and next sports superstar

Talent identification has become increasingly important across several different domains. Within sports, it is becoming more important than ever. Teams are desperate to recruit the best talents to help them succeed, and this process begins at a young age. Talent identification processes start at a young age to ensure the individual receives the ten years (or approximately 10,000 hours) of deliberate practice widely recognized as a necessity on the pathway to elitism. This practice needs to be completed in a conducive environment.

One of the most apparent trends in high-performance sports has been the increasing systematization of athlete talent identification and development over the past few decades. There is increasing pressure to identify the most "talented" athletes as early as possible so that they are placed in "optimal environments." Having a comprehensive understanding of the talent identification and selection process and its implications for positive and negative developmental outcomes is critical.

The notion of sports talent depends on several factors, including genetic, epigenetic, environmental, and socioeconomic variables. These and other identifiable factors affect our long-term development. Attempting to find talent by using "natural selection" to compare one athlete's performance with others of the same age has some limitations.

Most of the time, there is little attention paid to the potential interactions between sociocultural, political, religious, and economic factors, and it often involves subjective assessment.

Talent identification from a modern perspective, is the process by which children are encouraged to participate in the sports they are most likely to succeed in, based on selected parameters.

These designed parameters are to predict performance capacity, considering the child's current fitness and maturity level.?

Studies have shown that the scientific perspective on pursuing excellence in sport is divided into four key stages: detection, selection, identification, and development.?

Some of the challenges and problems parents and schools are facing are:?

? Lack of a standardized talent identification service to distinguish the right sport's appropriateness for children and adolescents based on their physical ability and psychological characteristic.

? Parents as the primary decision-makers in the identification of sports areas and talents for their children.?

? High cost of sports for youngsters without first determining the fitness of a particular sport to a child.

? Lack of self-motivation and derive by children to succeed in areas of sports chosen for them by others.

? Missed opportunity to find a sports talent at schools and leveraging the full potential of the kids due to the coaching staff's delayed recognition time.

? There is no minimum physical fitness requirement for school athletes to participate in sports competitions.?

To address these challenges a standardized talent identification service is needed to distinguish the suitable sport bases on physical, psychological, and anthropometric attributions.