Player Development: The Holistic Method

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Player Development: The Holistic Method provides the first holistic, evidence-based performance development method in sport. Focusing on the world’s largest sport, soccer, this book weaves together the interconnected layers driving player performance development to define a novel training method. In performance sport, narratives defining success or failure are steeped with stories of chance. The reality is that player performance and athlete development leading to career success is the byproduct of optimizing interconnected experiences toward maximizing the likelihood of individual success. It is the application of a holistic method that reduces the influence of luck and increases the likelihood of individual and team success. This book is the pathway to understanding and facilitating individual player development leading to elite performance success. This book reveals not only a holistic method, but also a universal method breaking down perceived and real barriers to provide a method transcending domains and specializations – a unified approach. The book introduces an evidence-based method toward performance development in soccer. It is key reading for students of coaching, talent development, sport performance and ancillary specializations, and practicing professionals in the field of player and performance development and coaching. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Holism: The Interconnected Nature of Performance Development 2 Player Performance Development as a Nested Process in Human Development 3 The Player in the Game 4 Design of the Player Experience in Training 5 The Outer Ecosystem Encapsulating the Player Experience 6 Application of the Holistic Method 7 Application of the Holistic Method – Special Topics and Specializations Index