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The differences in starting age also emphasize the need for policy makers and sport managers to adopt a balanced approach to selection-based systems and unstructured grass roots (soccer) activities. Players? development is a non-linear trajectory, and a too strict selection-based system will result also in the deselection of many players with the potential to excel in the future too.
our findings should reassure players from all soccer nations that an early start in a professional soccer academy is not a prerequisite for participation in FIFA?s World Cup.
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