The purpose of this study was to examine and compare how boy football academies in two different regions in Sweden work with talent development. To answer the purpose, the following questions were formed: How are players selected to play in the academy? What are the goals of the clubs’ academies? What environment and resources do the clubs have? The method used was semi-structured interview. Interviews were conducted with sporting directors in seven different academies in two different regions. We found that there are both similarities and major differences among the academies. The academies differ in some manner in almost all the studied areas, but region A produce vastly more elite senior level players than region B. The results could be due to the fact that region A start their academies from a younger age, have better access to competent personnel and have a greater pool of players to choose from but more research is needed to confirm this conclusion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-175101 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Kallin, Jacob Stephen, Widmark, Petter |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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