Talent Identification Essay

The tales of talent identification in sports has long been debated about what is the best method to find and develop talents. Some ways have become more successful than others while some have been a complete disaster. The competition in sports particularly in football for identifying talents is intensifying as all teams wants to recruit the best of the best from when they are still young. Due to the unpredictability of talent identification, the questions that often arise are; are we looking at the right place? Are we looking at the right attributes of the player? And most importantly, are we looking at the right player.

With football becoming the ever popular sport, the network of talent identification is expanding further. With expanding network, methods of talent identification arises. Some scouts/coaches prefers “readymade” products where they believe that the talent that they identify as “talent” already have everything required to succeed at first glance. Some

We have seen it in the quality of players that the Malaysian national team produce present day compared to the megalithic Malaysian national team of the 1970s-1980s. The standard of what is considered great talent in Malaysia has been lowered in present day, and we have one factor to blame: the people choosing the players.

The reason why we should blame the people choosing the players is because we have to think economically, every decision counts and the decision will soon be reflected by the performance. By having bias selection as well as less advanced methods of identifying talent, we are creating an opportunity cost where when we select a particular player, another particular player will be neglected. And sometimes that neglected player was the right player after all, all they had to do was look deeper into the player’s information and