A preliminary investigation into the evaluation of possession-based small-sided games and the influence of decision-making ability in identifying talented pre-pubertal soccer players

• Main Authors: Jonathan Fenner (Author), Greg Doncaster (Author), Alistair McRobert (Author), Paul Ford (Author), John Iga (Author), Viswanath Unnithan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: The aims of this study were 1) to assess if talented players can be identified within possession-based small-sided games (SSG), and 2) to determine if, decision making, physical, and time-motion characteristics correlated to success in a possession-based SSG. Methods: Eight, highly-tra...