WORKING CONCLUSIONS
T he starting point for understanding Quality Areas in relation to daily activities within the academy environment is the number of working processes connected with each of those 12 Quality Areas. When we overlay the processes with the QAs, the one connected with the most is Productivity, with 133 working processes. This is almost double the number of Talent Identification, second on the list, with 78 working processes. This is clear evidence that for clubs, the results of the academy’s work and the mechanisms by which they bring talents into their system, are the most crucial items on the agenda. Other important Quality Areas from this perspective are Human Capital and Cognitive Care. This seems logical when you consider that coaches and other back-room staff are the individuals tasked with delivering the various educational and development programmes to the players. This then forms the basis of the transformation work that an academy does. Another interesting finding is that the four most significant Quality Areas by number of working processes relate to the entry point of the development pathway, education, the people responsible for it, and the exit point at the end of the process.
Here, we identify the key processes in Quality Areas and observe what clubs are actually doing in their player development pathways
NUMBER OF WORKING PROCESSES WITHIN QA
A
C
133
78
69
58
32
28
B
10
25
13
12
9
7
34 (77%)
TALENT IDENTIFICATION – ENVIRONMENT Partner clubs are used by 68% of clubs, while 28% of clubs responding to the survey (59% of those which have partner clubs) enforce the same methodology and playing style in partner(s) club(s) as in the origin club.
Q Do you educate coaches in your partner clubs?
10 (23%)
26 (59%)
Q Do you enforce the same methodology and playing style in partner club(s) as in the origin club?
clubs to provide a report on the players they are interested in, while 48% of clubs use the same selection criteria for evaluating players at partner clubs as they do for general scouting. Communication with local schools about the potential recruits is conducted by 63% of clubs, while a far bigger number, 77%, collect general information about parents prior to signing a player. TALENT IDENTIFICATION – CLUB Eighty-five per cent of clubs have a database with information about potential youth players including
18 (41%)
Education of coaches in partner clubs is conducted by 52% of surveyed clubs (77% of those which do have partner clubs). Meanwhile, 95% of clubs scout for talented players, while 84% of clubs have defined the selection criteria. Almost half of clubs, 49%, ask partner
WORKING
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