Players, in order to have options to reach a high level, must manifest, in the selection process and during the training process, the following characteristics:
- Motivation towards the task.
- Optimal activation level.
- Concentration (Attentional style).
- Attitude (perseverance, intensity, desire to overcome and effort, ...) manifested in the development of the activity (whatever the circumstances of it).
- 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.
- Adequate 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 in an exceptional way some of the aspects or capabilities fundamental to football.
- Learning talent: Genetic and / or developed predisposition, inherent to the characteristics of the individual, which 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 manifestational.
This talent is always manifested by the player who acts on the ball or in relation to it, since the rest of the teammates must limit themselves to making the movements and maintaining the positions of the team's game system (these being invariable), to provide the optimal game to the possessor.
In players without the ball, a degree of talent is necessary in the manifestation of the aspects of opportunity when making (at the right time) the displacements to leave their playing area.