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Demo coverage. The academy, players and figures described here are fictional and exist to demonstrate this template’s youth-sport and development reporting.
Height and early physical maturity have long been the easiest, laziest proxy for talent at youth level, favouring players who simply grew early over players who grew later but read the game better.
The academy that dropped height as a primary filter reports a noticeably higher rate of its graduates still playing professionally five years on — evidence, its coaches argue, that the old filter was selecting for the wrong thing all along.
Selecting for the wrong thing
Dropping height as a primary filter produced a noticeably higher rate of graduates still playing professionally five years on.
What this means in practice
Early physical maturity is a weak long-term talent signal; academies that stop filtering by it see better outcomes years later.
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