Players, in order to have options to reach a high level, must state, in the selection process and during the formative process, the following characteristics:
- Motivation towards the task.
- Optimal activation level.
- Concentration (Attentional Style).
- Attitude (consistency, intensity, desire for improvement and effort, ...) manifested in the development of the activity (whatever the circumstances of the activity).
- Decision to want to be a player.
- A high level in some performance factor.
- Performance factors are those that when manifested by a player allow to objectively increase the level of performance of the team.
- Appropriate level of talent.
We understand that there are two types of talent:
- "Manifestational" talent: Genetic and/or developed predisposition, inherent in the characteristics of the individual, which allow him to manifest exceptionally some of the aspects or fundamental capacities for football.
- Learning talent: Genetic and/or developed predisposition, inherent in the characteristics of the individual, that allow him to assimilate, learn and develop with remarkable ease, the aspects raised in training and competition.
Thus, the concept of talent to which we refer is the manifestation.
This talent is always manifested by the player acting on or in relation to the ball, since the rest of the teammates must limit themselves to performing the movements and maintaining the positions of the team's game system (these being invariant), to provide the optimal game to the holder.
In players without a ball it is necessary a degree of talent in the manifestation of the aspects of opportunity when making (at the right time) the trips to leave their play area.