The Effect of Sport Managers' Management and Coaches' Performance on the Development of Iran Football Talent Identification

The origins of sport industries such as football are related to the talent identification of professional players and it is necessary to identify and determine those factors that affect talent identification to discover pure football talents. In other words, talent identification is possible with those variables such as sport managerschr('39') empowerments and sport coaches’ performance. Therefore, the present study examined the role of sport managers and the performance of coaches in developing Iran football talent identification. The research method was descriptive and survey in terms of objectives. The statistical population included the coaches of Iran Football Federation who had Asia A and B coaching degrees (N=3786) and 346 subjects were selected by Cochran formula and stratified random sampling method. To assess the role of sport managers in Iran football talent identification, a researcher-made questionnaire was developed; to evaluate the performance of coaches, Jowt and Mick questionnaire (2000) and the performance evaluation of football coaches, Rouhani et al. (2013) were used. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to analyze the data with SPSS and Amos software. Based on the results of factor analysis, the coefficient of determination (R2) of the performance of coaches was 0.638 and the R2 of sport managers was 0.571 in football talent identification. The "technical and educational" factors (0.615) and "supervision and evaluation in the implementation stage" were determined as the most effective factors in football talent identification. In general, the results show that the management of managers in talent identification should be in line with sport industry development within long-term goals. Also, talent identification coaches must consider all social, moral and professional aspects of football talent identification.