A Survey of Football Talent Identification Problems

The aim of this study was to survey football talent identification problems. All coaches of the basic football teams of Tehran Asia Vision league in adolescent and youth classes formed the statistical population of this study. 42 coaches were selected as the sample based on Morgan Table. Because there was not a standard questionnaire for this scope, a questionnaire with 5-point Likert scale was designed using the viewpoints of physical education and sport sciences professors and the coaches of basic categories of football national team. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was verified by physical education professors and football coaches and the reliability coefficient was obtained to be 0.86 by Cronbach’s Alpha. After receiving data from the subjects, the data were analyzed based on descriptive and inferential statistics (Friedman Test) by SPSS and EXCEL in order to survey football talent identification problems. The results showed that the most significant problems for football talent identification were: a lack of financial and material facilities for football talent identification, a lack of specialized committees for talent identification in the clubs, a lack of a systematic program for football talent identification, a lack of familiarity with scientific methods of talent identification, a lack of training of experts by relevant organizations for talent identification.