TABLE 4.

Descriptive statistics (means, M, and standard deviations, SD) for coach evaluation of potential of select and non-select youth soccer players, results of MANOVAs, and results of MANCOVAs with age, age² and BA^† minus CA as covariates, and adjusted means (M) and standard errors (SE)

	Select (n = 18)		Non-Select (n = 13)		Results of MANOVA		Results of MANCOVA		Adjusted for Age and BA minus CA
									Select		Non-Select
Player Potential	M	SD	M	SD	F	ηp2	F	ηp2	M	SE	M	SE
Technical skills	3.17	0.79	3.00	0.71	0.37	0.01	1.99	0.07	3.28	0.18	2.85	0.22
Tactical skills, attack	3.72	0.83	2.62	0.51	18.26**	0.39	14.46**	0.36	3.74	0.18	2.59	0.22
Tactical skills, defense	2.78	0.94	2.69	0.85	0.07	0.00	0.20	0.01	2.67	0.23	2.84	0.27
Creativity/decision skills	3.50	0.71	2.77	0.60	9.13**	0.24	8.74**	0.25	3.54	0.17	2.71	0.20
Usefulness in play	3.44	1.34	2.69	0.63	3.52	0.11	1.29	0.05	3.33	0.26	2.85	0.31
Overall potential††	16.61	3.74	13.77	1.79	6.39*	0.18	4.59*	0.15	16.56	0.76	13.84	0.92

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01.

^†Biological age is based on% predicted adult height relative to the UK 90 reference (see text for details).

^††Sum of the five scores.