Dr Adam Kelly is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in Talent Identification and development. Formally and academy player and coach, he now focuses on supporting national governing bodies in their creation of talent development pathways.

Show notes

1:39 - Introduction to Dr Adam Kelly

4:27 - What is talent development & performance vs potential

6:50 - The use of performance markers as potential indicators

8:45 - The challenges of competitions in potential development

12:00 - Historical key identifiers of potential long term performance

17:00- The challenges of psychology effecting performance when trying to identifying long term potential

19:45 - How squash has organised it's development pathway in relation to RAE

22:00 - The corrective time algorithm in athletics

27:00- How RAE schemes often miss out grassroot players

31:00 - The framing of player across and how Harry Maguire and John Stones has different experiences

33:30 - Research into position and decision making game based simulations

35:00 - Perceptual cognitive skill testing

37:00 - The use of VR in player assessment

41:00 - What would A grade academy development programme look like?

49:00 - The effects of the EPP on football in the UK

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