Determining Young Footballers' Positions Post-Academy: A Case Study

This research proposal investigates the post-academy careers of young footballers, focusing on players from the High Performance Academy in the UK. The study aims to determine the current status of these footballers after their release, exploring their career paths, challenges, and successes. The research includes a literature review that highlights the importance of understanding the transition from academy to professional football, referencing key studies and perspectives on athlete development and career progression. The methodology involves a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative and quantitative data collection through interviews, surveys, and analysis of secondary data. The project will involve a sample of 40 participants, including current and former academy players, to gather insights into their experiences and the factors influencing their career trajectories. The research will explore the spirit of young footballers, assess their current scenarios, and identify key aspects for providing appropriate guidance. The findings will contribute to the understanding of athlete development and inform strategies for supporting young footballers in their transition to professional careers. The study will employ various materials, including interview guides and questionnaires, to gather comprehensive data and ensure a robust analysis. The project also acknowledges the importance of secondary data from online sources, such as examples of successful post-academy footballers like Edwin Van der Sar and Frank Lampard, to provide context and real-world examples. The research aims to contribute to the enhancement of High Performance Academy's support for its young footballers and to provide relevant insights for the broader football community.

UCFB Student Research Proposal
1. Full Title of Project
To determine the position of young footballers once the release from academy - A case study
on High Performance Academy
2. Justification of the research & Review of Literature
 Explain the rationale for carrying out this project.
 You must include a literature review to support the research
This study is helpful in order to determine current status of football players in UK. There are
many individuals and young generation individual play football but out of them only few get
evaluated whom take a better place in some re-putative companies or some at appropriate
places. This study enable and justified that things become normal and appropriate in frame.
This signify that many individuals leave such game and start working on some small places
due to lack of financial attribute. This will result in gaining and deriving lack effective and
beneficial outcome which not used to support future aspects and consideration better.
The importance for analysing this aspect is appropriate to determine the current state position
of struggling footballers as well as the ones whom have already establish. Many footballers
leave the game and start focusing on their career on some other streamline by not getting a
chance to play for their country or favourite club. This used to reduce their morale which
further create problem in their align future aspect.
As per the aspect of Cañibano (2017), many young individual would not become able to
fulfil their dreams due to taking responsibility in early stage of life. This define that many
footballers play with appropriate dignity and respect but later they used to get demoralize just
because of not getting better life opportunity.
On the basis of Williams (2017), a true sports person is one whom used to play fairly and
accept the worst and good things properly. This signify that young generation footballers need
to be implement sports person spirit into them so that they could accept things better whether
they are in favour or not.
Young generation play the games like game and accept all pros and cons of it very well
Elliott and Drummond (2017). This signify that such individual have sportsperson spirit which
enable and support them in their each and every phase of life. This need to understand better
by them so that beneficial and appropriate gain could be evaluated. This will result to High

performance academy,y to define and determine beneficial outcome in nature of frame through
which better influence of sports get done. Thus, future of football are in hands of such young
individual whom used to made idols like Messi and Ronaldo whom are the greatest footballers
of this era. Thus, they need to implement better feeling of sports into them through which they
could become able to sustain in any define area of world.
3. Aims and Research Question
 Outline the aim(s) of the study and the research question(s) under investigation.
 If appropriate, outline the study hypotheses
On the basis of topic, an aim and certain objectives would get presented which enable in
making study easy to understand so that better determined outcome could be drawn in future
context as well as better growth could be reflected by High Performance Academy to their
young footballers (Magrath, 2017).
Aim: “To determine the position of young footballers once the release from academy - A case
study on High Performance Academy”
Objectives:
 To identify the spirit of young footballers of High Performance Academy
 To evaluate the position of young footballers in context of their playing
 To articulate and provide appropriate direction to young footballers
Research Questions:
 What will be the spirit of young footballers of High Performance Academy?
 What is the current scenario of young individual towards football?
 Which is a major thing for providing appropriate direction to young footballers?
4. Methodological design and other methodological features of your study
 Ensure this covers both methodology and methods
Research Methodology & Design
There are different techniques and methodologies use in an investigation which support to
increase better and related result legitimately and successfully (Nayak, 2016). It is imperative to
utilize reasonable examination technique by analyst so exceedingly viable and conceivable
outcomes could be achieve.
 Research Design: A plan of an examination should be outline in such setting so
contemplate wind up ready to achieve all related point and goal appropriately. This will
bolster in increase better and compelling result so odds of proper work end up
conceivable.
 Wellsprings of information – Mainly there are just two kinds of information figure out
which are essential and auxiliary information. Them two are useful to draw fitting result

by assessing in a suited edge.
 Sort of research techniques – Qualitative, quantitative and multi blend are a few sorts of
research strategies which bolster in increase better and successful outcomes.
 Information Analysis – Data investigation is a critical piece of concentrate in which data
get dissect appropriately (Cole, 2017). Information examination strategy use for
gathering reactions with the goal that it get characterize appropriately and viably.
 Information Sampling – Every examination or study depends on some example. These
example depend on some real respondents whom chose irregular or through group or
some other technique for testing.
For this project, appropriate and suitable methods of
study could be done which further enable in defining
aspects better and beneficial attribute could be drawn in
order to manage and maintain effectiveness and
efficiency in project (Burke, 2017). Thus, by providing
beneficial attribute, all aims and define objectives get
accomplish. This will result in managing better and
signified things through which better and determined
outcome could be drawn.
Data Collection Methods: Quantitative Data Collection Methods: Qualitative:
Quantitative strategies underscore target
estimations and the measurable, scientific,
or numerical investigation of information
gathered through surveys, polls, and
reviews, or by controlling previous factual
information utilizing computational
procedures. Quantitative research centres
around get-together numerical information
and summing it up crosswise over
gatherings of individuals or to clarify a
specific marvel.
There are three major sorts of research
interviews: organized, semi-organized and
unstructured. Organized meetings are, basically,
verbally directed polls, in which a rundown of
foreordained inquiries are asked, with next to
zero variety and with no extension for follow-up
inquiries to reactions that warrant assist
elaboration. Therefore, they are moderately fast
and simple to regulate and might be of specific
utilize if elucidation of specific inquiries are
required or if there are probably going to be
education or numeracy issues with the
respondents. In any case, by their exceptionally
nature, they take into account constrained
member reactions and are, in this manner, of

little utilize if 'profundity' is required.
5. Participants & Sampling / Sources (Secondary Data)
 Who will take part in your study? What will the inclusion / exclusion criteria be?
 How you will sample these participants?
 What sample size will you aim for and why?
Participants whom used to take part in study are individuals and youth of High Performance
Academy. They all support in providing and determining beneficial and suitable attribute so
that beneficial consideration used to take place (Magrath, Anderson and Bullingham, 2016).
This will result in analysing the facts properly through which better effectiveness and
efficiency could be maintain and manage. These participants will sample out in form of
random sampling so that chances of similar outcome could be reduce. This will result in
reflecting beneficial and suitable gain in consideration. The selected sample size of this project
is 40. This minimum number of individuals reflect beneficial attribute towards business and
working so that appropriate and signified working get done which further assist in reflecting
appropriate gain.
There is a list of certain footballers whom get graduate with better academies and create a
differ lifestyle but after that some of them start playing for a club where as some of them
putting engage themselves in several other kind of working. This all data enable and support in
defining things from secondary source of information. This data get disseminate from internet
sources so that effective and better real life examples could be included.
One of a best example in such streamline is Edwin Van der Sar whom is former goalkeeper of
Ajax and Manchester United with champion league winner as well. Although, currently he is
working as a marketing director of Ajax with acquiring a Master degree in international sports
management. This define that such kind of players facilitate and provide better growth options
whom work for economic welfare of companies apart from the country. This example stated
that graduate individual with higher marks in degree also become famous footballers to
provide sport support to their country.
Another individual whom have study and have higher degree in education but determine as one
of a major football player as well. Frank Lampard whom is a former midfielder of Manchester
city and also have a degree in Latin with subject score A. This signify that such individual also
have a better interest and take a good place in society. He is now working as a great business
leader which support and signify his success story better.
Vincent Kompany captain of Belgium and Manchester City who used to work in better and
determined manner and undoubtedly best defender in the world as well. He is a two time

premier league winner in the Manchester School of Business in 2012 with appropriate and
suitable degree as well. This will result in drawing beneficial and effective outcome in frame
so that better and signified thing get done.
Thus, a study need to become appropriate and effective in frame when primary and secondary
source of information get included into it. All the individuals which selected for the study are
regular student and learning aspects of High Performance Academy so that better and effective
working consideration could be done (Blakelock, Chen and Prescott, 2016). This will result in
deriving beneficial gain so that supportive results and attribute could be drawn in signified
manner.
The study could get done on inclusion and exclusion frame so that things went upraise and
decline in a definite sample thinking. Although, with effective and better implementation of
project, suitable consideration of hypothesis get crafted which support in signified things better
and effectively.
High performance Academy will going to improve their working so that each and every
individual footballer used to craft better and efficient working. This will result in drawing a
valid conclusion and extent to the project so that effectiveness and efficiency could be manage
and maintain and in better frame.
6. Materials/Equipment
 If appropriate to your research please include the materials that you will be using
 E.g. Questionnaire, interview guide, etc.
 Include equipment if study uses an experimental design
There are various kinds of material will going to include in the project which have to better
understand by an individual. A study enables and define better concern on topic with
appropriate aim and objectives. Thus, appropriate and suitable material is required to utilize so
that beneficial attribute could be drawn (Stewart, 2017). For this consideration various sources
and techniques could be estimated like primary sources and secondary sources. Primary source
is beneficial in order to gain better outcome through questionnaire survey which enable and
assist in proclaiming better results. On the other hand, secondary source includes and define
about the books and journals related with topic which define and include about opinion of
differ individuals and consideration effectively.
Below is a questionnaire, which get organize on one of a most famous football federation
academy UEFA with a president named
Aleksander Čeferin. This questionnaire get done on this famous personality about footballers
and their current status. This questionnaire includes and define about a personal interview

which facilitate to drawn better things in frame:
 Do you think that it is essential for footballers to graduate?
 Will football players get appropriate and suitable place in the world?
 How your academy prefer the best footballer and least performing one?
 Will successful footballers craft their name and fame in the world better or not?
 Does thye find job in some private institute or in some other football club?
7. Procedure
 Describe the procedure that will be undertaken in the study.
 How will participants be recruited?
 Once recruited, what will participants have to do and how long it will take?
 Provide enough information to ensure that study can be replicated.
A study need to follow a definite and suitable procedure which enable and support in deriving
the beneficial and effective outcome. With procedure or a plan a study will not going to met
with define criteria and aspects. A procedure standardize with appropriate action plan which
includes and define about aims and objectives, literature review, methodology and perfect
duration of completion. This will result in reflecting beneficial and suitable gain in frame so
that better understanding of the project get done.
For collecting data, participants get recruited on the basis of ability of playing football. It
includes age group individual more than 18. All individuals are related with High Performance
Academy where random selection get evaluated. All more than 18 years individual get selected
on the basis of chit through which better and effective survey could get done.
The participants need to fill up the questionnaire which provided for the study so that their
responsive could be estimated. This process will take around 5 days to fill the questionnaire so
that appropriate time will going to provide for filling the questionnaire.
This study is free from duplication which define that all resources and things are raw in tenure
and not belong to desire form of consideration.
8. Ethical implications
 Identify any ethical considerations related to the study
 If collecting any personal data or working with <18’ this must be made clear and
discussed
 Please note N/A is not an acceptable answer
Yes, the data which will use in this study completely linked with study. It is ethical in frame
where none of the kind of duplication use to take place. A major ethical consideration which

associated with this study is sharing of information from one person to another. It is highly
recommend under the law that data protection is must for each and every aspect. This will
result in reflecting beneficial and suitable gain in nature.
Information which get disseminate completely taken from more than 18 years. This result in
gaining and responding towards appropriate aspect so that beneficial and determined results
and outcome could be drawn. This will enable in maximise effectiveness and efficiency
towards project.
All ethical implications of project like confidentiality also maintained towards respondents.
Their data remain protective under the legislation aspect where chances of derivation of
inappropriate aspect could be reduce. This will result in fulfil and define that things went well
which further enable in managing beneficial attribute towards project working.
9. Data Analysis methods
 Explain how you will analyse your data once collected
 Provide more detail than simply ‘qualitatively’ or ‘quantitatively’
Data collection is not a easy things and it requires more and more suitable consideration to
adopt. Once the data get gather through questionnaire or any other source, then it really need
to get understand or analyse better so that effective and beneficial gain could be dropped out.
There are various kinds and methods get underpin for the study which have to understand by
an individual better while conducting any kind of survey. This will result in assessing aspects
better so that effective and suitable outcome could be reflected through that. Mainly, there are
two kind of analysis method get underpin where one stands for qualitative and another one is
quantitative. Qualitative: This data get estimated and understand on the basis of quality measure.
Quality matters more and more for a tenure so that beneficial understanding could be
reflected. It is basically concern with interpretative philosophy so that beneficial
attribute could be drawn. It is a range of process and procedure where some
explanation could be understand proper so that appropriate understanding could be
reflected. This will result in providing beneficial and suitable gain so that better
effectiveness and efficiency could be promoted for long period of consideration.
 Quantitative: This kind of survey stands when numerical consideration and
interpretation used to take place. Researcher transform aspects into numerical
elevation so that a suitable understanding could be promoted. This will result in
estimating beneficial attribute so that effective understanding could be done. A project
require nothing but quantity which gather from survey. A study become successful in

tenure once all aspects get fulfil. This will result in estimating suitable and beneficial
aspects of the study which fulfil all desire requirement and criteria better and suitable
in nature.
10. References
 List all references cited using Harvard Method
 Cañibano, L., 2017. Accounting and intangibles.
 Williams, J., 2017. Games without frontiers: Football, identity and modernity.
Routledge.
 Elliott, S. K. and Drummond, M .J., 2017. Parents in youth sport: what happens after
the game?. Sport, Education and Society. 22(3). pp.391-406.
 Magrath, R., 2017. The intersection of race, religion and homophobia in British
football. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 52(4). pp.411-429.
 Nayak, A., 2016. Race, place and globalization: Youth cultures in a changing world.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
 Cole, T., 2017. Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler; how history is
bought, packaged and sold. Routledge.
 Burke, P., 2017. Popular culture in early modern Europe. Routledge.
 Magrath, R., Anderson, E. and Bullingham, R., 2016. Out in sport: The experiences of
openly gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport. Routledge.
 Blakelock, D. J., Chen, M. A. and Prescott, T., 2016. Psychological distress in elite
adolescent soccer players following deselection. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology.
10(1). pp.59-77.
 Stewart, B., 2017. Sport funding and finance. Routledge.
11. Proposed Supervisor
 Indicate up to three supervisors who you think could supervise your project.
 Please provide the reasoning for your choice
 We try and match students to their first preference but this is not guaranteed
1. _____________________
2. _____________________
3. _____________________