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Benchmark study by the South Korean team at 2010 World Cup with reference to the four best teams and the study covers all thirty two teams across 600 players.
What I find most intriguing is this study confirms some of the weaknesses jamaican teams have had in the past with slower than average players and players with poor endurance levels being repeatedly selected over long periods of time and this study shows that in the 2010 World Cup that the players who ran the most were midfielders and wing backs, these positions require speed and endurance.
Jamaica does very well in the id and development of wing backs, that is probably our best record of performance in delivery of talent to pro leagues over the past twenty years, where we have totally failed is delivery of central and attacking mids to pro leagues, this is the area of our greatest weakness and the players we consistently identify are slower than average and lack endurance which is provably primarily responsible for the lack of any traction in jamaica contributing talent consistently in this area and consistently failing to develop a passing game that can even attempt to pass the ball in the opposition half of superior or even ranked opponents.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3588631/
What I find most intriguing is this study confirms some of the weaknesses jamaican teams have had in the past with slower than average players and players with poor endurance levels being repeatedly selected over long periods of time and this study shows that in the 2010 World Cup that the players who ran the most were midfielders and wing backs, these positions require speed and endurance.
Jamaica does very well in the id and development of wing backs, that is probably our best record of performance in delivery of talent to pro leagues over the past twenty years, where we have totally failed is delivery of central and attacking mids to pro leagues, this is the area of our greatest weakness and the players we consistently identify are slower than average and lack endurance which is provably primarily responsible for the lack of any traction in jamaica contributing talent consistently in this area and consistently failing to develop a passing game that can even attempt to pass the ball in the opposition half of superior or even ranked opponents.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3588631/