Getting the Best out of the Best

Hope or Design Paul Holder

average for their age group

striving to keep up

forging ahead

TALENT ID

The Elite PlayerHow do we achieve this?

Nature + Nurture = PERFECT

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”I CAN’T WORK YOU OUT”

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OBSESSIVE ‘ COMPULSIVE’ (PRACTICE)

UNDAUNTED WILL (MOTIVATION)

SEEKER (LEARNING)

CLEVER ‘EYE’ (TACTICS)

INTELLIGENT ? (TACTICS,CAREER)

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

Essential ‘Cogs’

Opportunity

+ Support network

Abilities

Drive

(motivation)

+ A whole lot of Luck

• 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

José V. Portolés Montañés

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Performance Performance

PotentialPotential

‘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

What is Talent ? Assessment criteria

Top-downBottom-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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Different Pathways

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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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 Montañés15

• Correlaciones entre los mejores rendimientos realizados cada año por saltadores de élite franceses entre 16 y 23 años (Durand, 1987)

BEN WATSON VICTOR MOSES WAYNE ROUTLEDGE

RIGHT PRACTICE

Clear Vision

Tangible Goals

Outside to in

Inside to Out

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The 3 r’s

RELEVANCE REALISM REPETITION

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PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

Load

Performance

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One size won’t fit all

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Coach - Practice – challenge – feedback

COACH = NAVIGATOR

‘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 4th century B. C. Chinese

treatise, Xue Ji

build an environment where individual talent can flourish

Recognise , celebrate & then try to manage individuality & difference

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The Product

In The System

The Future

Was

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

JFK