Assessment criteria

1. Getting the Best
out of the Best
Hope or Design
Paul Holder

2. average for their
age group
striving
to keep up
forging
ahead
TALENT ID

3. The Elite Player
How do we achieve this?
Nature + Nurture =
PERFECT
3

4. ”I CAN’T WORK YOU OUT”

5. 4

6. OBSESSIVE ‘ COMPULSIVE’ (PRACTICE)
UNDAUNTED WILL (MOTIVATION)
SEEKER (LEARNING)
CLEVER ‘EYE’ (TACTICS)
INTELLIGENT ? (TACTICS,CAREER)

7. Masters Information Quickly
Can Jump stages in learning
Can Detect & Self correct errors
Can Reason ‘things out’ for themselves
Is self-directed & highly motivated
Resourceful, Resilient, Reflective

8. Essential ‘Cogs’
Opportunity
+ Support network
Abilities
Drive
(motivation)
+ A whole lot of Luck

9. • Support network
• Oppo
‘We couldnt get them off the training field ........’
‘They pulled each other up by the boot laces ....’
‘They were fiercely competitive with each other ‘
(left to right) Gary Neville, Ben Thornley, Steven Riley, Chris Casper, Nicky Butt, David
Beckham, Robbie Savage, Eric Harrison (coach), Richard Irving, Paul Scholes, Mark
Rawlinson, John O'Kane, Jovan Kirovski, Keith Gillespie, David Pierce

11. José V. Portolés Montañés
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Performance
Potential
‘The educator must above all
understand how to wait;
to reckon all effects
in the light of the future,
not of the present’.
Ellen Key, 1911

12. What is Talent ?
Assessment criteria
Top-down
Bottom-up
Platini, Butragüeño, Zidane,
Suker,Mendieta,Gerrard, David Villa, …
Platini and Zidane didn’t train at Clairfontaine but
still made the National Team
How can we DECIDE who is Talented & When ?
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13. Different Pathways

14. The Best Performance Age
World Cup 2006 Germany
Player Age
At world cup
International
Debut
Player Age
At world cup
International
Debut
BALLACK 30 23 HENRY 29 23
LAH 23 21 ZIDANE 34 22
KLOSE 23 THURAN 34 22
LEHMANN 37 29 VIEIRA 30 21
PODOLSKI 21 19 ZÉ ROBERTO 32 23
TOTTI 30 22 RICARDO 30 25
CANNAVARO 33 25 CARVALHO 28 25
GATUSO 28 22 FIGO 34 19
LUCA TONI 30 28 MANICHE 29 26
ZAMBROTTA 29 22 AYALA 33 21
PIRLO 27 23 CRESPO 31 20
BUFFON 28 19 AVERAGE 29,9 22,65
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15. Predicting the future ?
AGE
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
16 .33 % .50 .17 .10 .05 -.02 .06
17 .34 .59 .43 .27 .15 .24
18 .41 .55 .41 .65 .52
19 .47 .77 .63 .55
20 .68 .79 .57
21 .81 .73
22 .88%
The effect of predicting performance too early
Staverton, 19/05/10 José V. Portolés Montañés
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• Correlaciones entre los mejores rendimientos realizados cada año por saltadores de élite franceses entre 16 y 23 años (Durand, 1987)

16. BEN WATSON VICTOR MOSES WAYNE ROUTLEDGE

17. RIGHT PRACTICE
Clear Vision
Tangible Goals

18. Outside to in
Inside to Out
1

19. The 3 r’s
RELEVANCE
REALISM
REPETITION
2

20. PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
Load
Performance
3

21. One size won’t fit all

22. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Coach - Practice – challenge – feedback
COACH = NAVIGATOR

23. ‘The success of education depends on adapting
teaching to individual differences among learners’.
..... The success of coaching or a coaching programme
depends on adapting coaching to individual differences
among players...........................................
Yuezheng,
in 4thcenturyB. C. Chinesetreatise, Xue Ji

24. build an environment where individual talent can flourish
Recognise , celebrate & then try to manage individuality & difference
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José V. Portolés Montañés
The
Product
In The
Syste
m
The
Future

26. “All of us do not have equal talent,
but all of us should have equal
opportunity to develop our talents
JFK