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Notes on assessing young footballers.

What a number can tell you, what it cannot, and what thirty years of writing things down has taught us.

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A floodlit football pitch at night

Explained5 min read

The five pillars, explained for parents

Technical, Athletic, Psychological, Educational, Social. What each one measures, why the last three are not the soft ones, and what they look like on the day.

A football on wet grass with players' boots in motion

Assessment5 min read

Why a single number never describes an athlete

We publish a score out of a hundred because a single readable figure is the only way five separate assessments become a conversation. It is also the most misread thing in the report.

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