The main aim of this study is to identify the factors which influence playing ability performance in the identification process of young football talent as a whole. The evidences from the previous studies, Phase 1 National Football Development Plan:2014-2020 and the Roadmap of Malaysia Football Association: 2019-2030 shows that holistic approach in the process of identifying young talent is the main key in the development of a national football. The three main constraints were tasks, performers’ and the environmental which involve the factors of training history, morphological, functional capacity, motor coordination, technical skills, tactical skills, psychological characteristics, biological maturity status, relative age effect and sociological which provide large influence to the football playing ability performance among the male youth football players. Both Newell (1986) constraint theory and Williams & Reilly (2000) the football expertise prediction model are able to explain the relationship between variables which is related to the multidimensional assessment approach in identifying the young talent of football.
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