The methodological approach of this cross-sectional confirmatory research was aimed at analyzing the dominant basic motor abilities and situational motor abilities, their general and partial contribution and prediction of the level of success of performance and behaviour in individual components of football as a prerequisite for a more complete explanation and projection of objective indicators of the competence framework of success in the game of football of the researched sample.
The starting point was the assumption that this approach enables confirmation or correction of previous proceedings and procedures in the process of selecting young football players for their top achievements in the mature stage of their football career.
The specific aim of this work is to determine individual and characteristic typical group profiles of basic motor and specific motor abilities based on different levels of success in different components of the game of football.
The research was carried out on a sample of 110 young football players from Sarajevo aged from 12 to 14 years.
Seventeen variables were used to assess basic motor skills, 11 variables for the estimation of situationalmotor abilities, and 8 variables for evaluating success in football. The results are a significant incentive for the improvement of selection technology of young football players because they offer an opportunity to model morphological, motor, situational-motoric, diagnostic, prognostic framework with clear indicators requirements and reference values for the ontogeny age of the sample.
Keywords: factor analysis, football, pioneers, football player performance
