TY - THES AU - Gmür, Eva T1 - Talent Fostering T4 - From Mass Sports to High-Performance Sports in Swiss Youth Football (U18) DA - 2011 CY - Chur PB - Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW Chur A3 - Tschapka, Michael AB - The aim of the youth development department of each football club is to identify those talents with the highest potential to achieve future top results. The decisive factors which may influence a talent can however only be determined retrospectively. The aim of this Bachelor thesis is for this reason to explore and critically evaluate similar and different factors in talents’ past career development which influenced these players on their way to high-performance football. The literature review analyses former studies concerning talent identification, selection and development whereby factors influencing elite athletes are revealed. Besides this review, players’ fact sheets, a pilot questionnaire and qualitative interviews with a number of U18 players, their coaches, and technical directors in charge of youth development, are analysed. Derived from this broad data base, factors influencing a successful transition from grass roots to youth high-performance football in Switzerland are outlined. This compilation of factors helps to understand the crucial common success factors, which in turn allows to take them into account in future talent fostering. This consequently helps to enhance the quality of talent development. M3 - Bachelorarbeit Tourismus M4 - Citavi ER -