![]() ![]() ![]() Through research over 2014-19, they found that youth players in the top third for cognitive scores when initially tested had an average market value that was around seven times higher than the youth players in the bottom third for cognitive scores. Castien says that while the brain develops at different speeds in the early teenage years, by the age of around 15, it is stable enough for them to make reliable predictions about someone’s potential cognitive ability when they reach 23 or 24. Several clubs in the Netherlands, as well as others in Europe like Real Sociedad in Spain and Southampton in England, have been using BrainsFirst to test their current and potential youth players. They basically solve complex problems automatically, without consciously thinking about them.Īs Castien puts it, elite soccer players not only need the right physical attributes and determination, but also “need to be outliers cognitively.” ![]() In short, elite soccer players aren’t necessarily smarter than other people, but their brains, in certain aspects, operate much, much faster. ![]()
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