Physical guidelines to select male Ecuadorian  soccer talents. Category 9-12 years old Normas físicas para seleccionar talentos en el fútbol ecuatoriano masculino. Categoría 9 -12 años
	*Departamento de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE **Universidad Central de Ecuador (Ecuador)	Patricio Fabián Pilaguano Senges* patrick_f23@hotmail.es Aurelio Ricardo Salazar Garrido* ricardo18_93_01@hotmail.com MSc. Milton Fernando Rosero Duque** ferchoferos@hotmail.com MSc. Mayra Alexandra Beltrán Vásquez** maywelin@hotmail.com Phd. Edgardo Romero Frómeta* eeromero4@espe.edu.ec
	Abstract           This paper aims to design physical performance scales for male Ecuadorian soccer players, category 9-12 years old. In order to create those scales there were selected several tests for the evaluation of the physical performance such as flying 30 meter test, long jump without impulse race, abdominals, elbow flexions and 600m race. The tests were performed in 19 Ecuadorian provinces located in the mountain range and the coast, by which the scales were determined for two subcategories, 9-10 and 11-12 years old. The system of guidelines moves between 10 and 90 percentiles and its approval is based on those children capable of fulfilling at least 50-70 of the percentile in the physical standards that are the reflection of the 30-50 % of the infant sport population with a higher level of performance in the indicators evaluated.           Keywords: Physical guidelines. Scales. Talent Selection. Soccer.   Resumen           El objetivo del presente artículo es diseñar escalas del rendimiento físico para futbolistas ecuatorianos del sexo masculino, categoría 9-12 años. Para conformar las escalas se seleccionaron varias pruebas de valoración del rendimiento físico, tales como 30m lanzados, Salto de longitud sin carrera de impulso, Abdominales, Flexiones del codo y Carrera de 600m. Las mediciones fueron realizadas en 19 provincias ecuatorianas de la sierra y la costa, determinándose los baremos para dos subcategorías, 9-10 años y 11-12 años. El sistema de normas se mueve en un intervalo entre 10 y 90 percentiles, inclinándose su aprobación por aquellos niños que son capaces de cumplir, al menos, un 50-70 del percentil, en las normas físicas que son el reflejo del 30-50 % de la población infantil deportiva con mayor nivel de actuación en los indicadores evaluados.           Palabras clave: Normas físicas. Escalas. Selección de talentos. Fútbol.   Acknowledgements           The National Sport Federation of Ecuador and the authors of the paper thank all the Provincial Sport Federations and their coaches, monitors and leaders that cooperated with the research and the put in practice of the tests.   Reception: 12/29/2015 - Acceptance: 03/22/2016
	EFDeportes.com, Revista Digital. Buenos Aires, Año 21, Nº 215, Abril de 2016. http://www.efdeportes.com/

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Introduction

    Ecuador is one of the South American countries that have experienced an accelerated development of soccer in the last few years (Wikipedia, 2016). This development has been generated by the strategy of the Ecuadorian Soccer Federation, aimed at supporting the activities among children, teenagers and youths, both in the sport and recreational field and the preparation of the coaches. In addition, it is a fact given the indisputable passion of the people, since this sport moves millions every year and has influence on the physical training of thousands of children and teenagers that practice it (Unicef, 2004; Helsen, W. F., Van Winckel & Williams, 2005; Incarbone & Guinguis, 2006; Lieberman, L. J., Robinson & Rollheiser, 2006; Winnick, 2011; Calero & González, 2014).

    This sport contributes to the development of aerobic resistance, speed, fast and explosive strength, force resistance and flexibility, plus the coordination, the rhythm, the balance and a group of volitive qualities and related to the personality, which turn it into a pedagogical instrument very useful in the formation of new generations (Helsen, Hodges, Winckel y Starkes, 2000; Helsen, Van Winckel & Williams, 2005; Christou, Smilios, Sotiropoulos, Volaklis, Pilianidis & Tokmakidis, 2006; Cometti, 2007; Calero & González, 2015).

    The progressive process of sport training states, as a priority task, more emphasis in the quality of the process of scouting children that begin to practice the sport, in which several sociocultural and physical variables take part, among others, as it is stated in Calero & Suárez (2011), it is a work that at present gets more significance due to the demands that, from the competitive point of view, are getting higher and force to an earlier selection (Meylan, Cronin, Oliver & Hughes, 2010; Calero, 2012-2013; Unnithan, White, Georgiou, Iga & Drust, 2012; Vandendriessche, Vaeyens, Vandorpe, Lenoir, Lefevre & Philippaerts, 2012; León, Calero & Chávez, 2014). This justifies that “today one of the big blocks where the sport research is heading is the early selection of talents, trying to establish the scientific basis of a sport prospect based on the early identification of future champions”.

    In order to fulfill the abovementioned, diverse evaluation tests of the sport performance are set to give priority to the physical condition tests (Vänttinen & Blomqvist, Nyman & Häkkinen, 2011; Boone, Vaeyens, Steyaert, Bossche & Bourgois, 2012; Rebelo, Brito, Maia, Coelho-e-Silva, Figueiredo, Bangsbo & Seabra, 2013), and therefore different performance scales are created to serve as guides in the evaluation of the training and the competitions for the coaches, as those set in Flores, Calero, Arancibia & García (2014a,b), allowing to build up integrated programs for the development of the physical capacities in different stages of the sport preparation of the soccer player, as it is demonstrated in Vizcarra, Carrasco, Calero, Vaca & Chávez (2015).

    The selection is the process through which talented people and with favorable attitudes for soccer are individualized, considering that this sport, in the high competitive level, is not a natural game but a sport of motor skills and acquired technique, difficult and varied, which proves the need to carry a process of detection and selection that allows to choose the more talented children to win and develop the soccer technique accomplished spontaneously, since the receptivity of the stimulus in the exteroceptive and proprioceptive fields is different in each child (García, García, Domínguez, Fernández & Zayas, 2009), although they have common traits. Therefore, not every boy, girl or teenager gets to the same level of subtleness in the technical expertise.

    So, if soccer is a game that not everyone can successfully have access to, what attributes and qualities are required? Undoubtedly, finding answers to that question would lead successive approaches to figure out a problem of theoretical and methodological transcendence of great significance for the selection work, not only in soccer, but also in all sports.

    The authors of this paper consider that an efficient labor for the detection and selection of possible talents require the determination of the criteria that have to be taken into consideration; that adjusts to the characteristics of soccer based on determining the components that settle on the skills and qualities of children and teenagers for this sport.

    It cannot be overlooked that the motor and psychological capacities and the special anthropometric measures, among others, are the main elements of the performance to be discovered when selecting a soccer player (Ferrer, Moreno & Moreno, 2015).

    Ecuador, out of all questions, has managed to participate in several world cups with promising results, so these physical preparation guidelines for the selection of children and teenagers are just aimed at supporting this effort, since there is lack of own scales, but according to experience, diverse instruments are applied for the selection.

    In this article, scales have been created to define, according to the characteristics of the Ecuadorian infant population undergone to study, which are the levels of initial motor capacities that must be settled, hence its goal.

Material and methods

    The system to guide the selection of children that initiate in the Ecuadorian soccer is the result of the tests performed in 19 provinces of the coast, the Amazonia and the mountain range and in which multiple coaches of the provincial sport federations took part. To create the guidelines a sample of 130 soccer players was studied.

    In the system there is a test made up by the following standard exercises:

• Flying 30 meter test with 10 m of impulse (in seconds)

• Long jump without impulse in cm.

• Abdominals in 30 seconds, repetitions.

• Face down elbow flexions in 30 seconds, in repetitions.

• Race (600 m for 9-10 years old), in minutes and seconds.

    The tests has a value of 50 points, establishing a total of 10 points per indicator and to pass it, the candidate must obtain, at least 50-70 % of them, equivalent to a minimum of 25-35 points.

    There were applied the percentiles 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 on the “Percentile” function on Microsoft Excel 2013.

    To the effects of the qualitative evaluation of the test the following standards are establish:

• Excellent: More than 45 points.

• Very good: 41-45 points.

• Good: 36-40- points.

• Passed: 25-35 points.

• Deficient: less tan 25 points.

Methodology

    The guidelines are constituted in the specific motor markers that allow establishing a more precise orientation of the initial level that a beginner (9-12 year old) should have and reflect the result of demands typical of the Ecuadorian soccer player that begins practicing this sport with their representative motor capacities.

    These standards are distant from those that, imported from other countries, have been applied in Ecuador. The system moves in a range between 10 and 90 percentiles with a trend to be approved by those kids capable of fulfilling at least a 50-70 percentile in the physical standards that reflect 30-50 % of the infant population with a higher level of performance in the indicators evaluated.

    The parameters evaluated are pure speed, the resistance of the upper limbs and the trunk, and the power of the jumps, very typical in the explosive strength level of this sport. It concludes with the test to the average resistance, applied in general in soccer.

    Considering that these are the standard demands and that the child must be monitored during his entire sport debut, the coaches will use other indicators such as the growth speed of the physical training to determine, in a 12-18 month period, if he is really a talented child.

Results and discussion

    In order to follow up the child who begins practicing soccer in sport schools, under this system of guidelines, the coach should take into account the following scales or standards shown in table 1.

Table 1. Entry standards of Sport Schools for male soccer in 9-10 year olds

Moments of the application of the standards	Total points	Flying 30 m (sec)	Long jump without impulse (cm)	Abdominals 30 sec. (Rep.)	Elbow flexions 30 sec. (Rep.)	600 m race (min.)
Results to enter	1	6,50-6,20	110-114	8	6	5.45-4,52
	2	6,219-5,93	115-122	9	7	4.51-3.51
	3	5,92-5,65	123-128	10-13	8-9	3.50-3.26
	4	5,64-5,50	129-133	14-15	10-11	3.25-3.08
	5	5,49-5,29	134-136	16	12-14	3.07-2.51
	6	5,28-5,11	137-143	17	15	2.50-2.42
	7	5,10-4,95	144-151	18	16-17	2.41-2.33
Guiding results after first year of training	8	4,94-4,66	152-159	19	18-19	2.32-2.25
Guiding results after second year of training	10	4,66-4,46	159-164	20-21	20-21	2.25-2.19

 

Table 2. Data collected to establish the standards (9-10 year olds)

Physical tests 9-10 years old
Nº	Flying 30 meter test	Jump without impulse	Abdominals 30 sec.	Elbow flexions 30 sec.	600 m race
1	4,46	159,0	18	16	134,00
2	4,51	148,0	17	26	141,00
3	4,98	149,0	11	18	157,00
4	4,45	158,0	17	23	148,00
5	4,58	163,0	18	15	139,00
6	4,58	157,0	20	27	151,00
7	4,50	185,0	22	20	136,00
8	5,18	120,0	14	7	156,00
9	4,73	131,0	17	16	152,00
10	4,32	150,0	17	23	154,00
11	4,70	148,0	18	15	155,00
12	4,30	159,0	20	33	136,00
13	5,12	135,0	4	16	158,00
14	4,66	159,0	19	20	140,00
15	4,95	138,0	12	32	147,00
16	4,71	130,0	16	8	157,00
17	4,81	151,0	20	20	164,00
18	5,46	119,0	28	21	209
19	6,22	90,0	27	15	242
20	5,53	143,0	29	18	210
21	4,83	123,0	17	19	345
22	5,35	106,0	14	15	355
23	4,97	118,0	16	8	315
24	5,17	128,0	17	11	305
25	4,79	124,0	20	16	285
26	5,22	122,0	15	10	338
27	5,17	113,0	15	17	347
28	5,51	111,0	18	15	359
29	5,30	129,0	11	14	360
30	5,72	112,0	11	8	356
31	5,58	123,0	15	14	353
32	5,51	111,0	18	17	350
33	5,67	115,0	15	13	308
34	5,72	127,0	11	12	358
35	4,98	134,0	19	8	151
36	4,98	138,0	20	10	152
37	4,98	160,0	28	11	162
38	5,60	128,0	21	30	161
39	4,22	174,0	24	27	139
40	5,32	127,0	20	10	167
41	5,19	156,0	25	20	145
42	5,20	129,0	19	10	194
43	5,36	133,0	19	8	171
44	4,25	150,0	18	13	170
45	5,09	140,0	18	10	210
46	5,53	128,0	15	10	260
47	6,05	137,0	18	18	181
48	5,45	113,0	5	3	250
49	5,50	120,0	11	8	260
50	5,58	128,0	21	9	195
51	5,20	128,0	16	23	170
52	4,50	128,0	25	25	148
53	5,68	165,0	16	11	176
54	6,10	110,0	10	5	245
55	5,58	159,0	22	18	158
56	6,38	127,0	17	12	180
57	5,95	154,0	27	19	165
58	5,99	113,0	16	15	158
59	5,80	142,0	24	23	160
60	5,71	152,0	17	21	151
61	5,98	117,0	10	23	172
62	6,42	120,0	18	15	193
63	5,89	112,0	20	23	121
64	6,25	102,0	6	8	183
65	5,83	130,0	21	22	156
66	6,46	118,0	30	17	183
67	6,11	143,0	28	29	152
68	5,99	136,0	25	16	189
69	6,82	109,0	21	6	193
70	5,81	147,0	16	13	166
71	6,23	133,0	21	15	172
72	6,47	140,0	18	14	153
73	6,36	137,0	26	15	166
74	5,87	132,0	22	17	121
75	6,25	102,0	12	13	183
76	5,95	154,0	27	19	165
77	6,08	133,0	19	21	153
78	5,83	130,0	21	22	156
79	6,32	112,0	16	18	188
80	7,20	134,0	20	25	188
81	6,40	116,0	22	21	192
82	7,00	110,0	19	15	205
83	6,60	112,0	24	19	377
84	7,00	109,0	20	20	374
85	6,50	110,0	25	15	381
86	7,01	95,0	20	10	420
87	6,24	166,0	25	32	310
88	6,47	112,0	14	7	246
89	6,59	122,0	20	7	215
90	6,59	114,0	19	13	179
91	5,59	108,0	8	5	268
92	5,27	128,0	13	10	174
93	5,28	128,0	21	9	177
94	6,63	112,0	23	6	213
95	5,84	129,0	23	15	206
96	5,49	147,0	10	29	167
97	5,04	134,0	17	26	306
98	5,33	134,0	18	25	334
99	5,49	147,0	10	29	167
100	5,04	134,0	17	26	304
101	5,33	134,0	18	25	334
102	5,15	158,0	13	25	296
103	4,90	175,0	30	26	215
104	4,19	187,0	27	27	241
105	5,01	153,0	19	23	221
106	4,79	159,0	20	21	222
107	5,32	133,0	8	20	334
108	5,10	143,0	10	18	279
109	0,26	140,0	27	21	207
110	6,63	150,0	31	19	140
111	6,87	150,0	25	19	220
112	5,00	147,0	15	10	206
113	4,80	134,0	6	18	193
114	5,53	133,0	7	14	292
115	6,00	128,0	18	18	150
116	5,62	92,0	2	12	286
117	5,37	146,0	20	5	215
118	5,69	123,0	1	11	228
119	5,14	106,0	15	11	218
120	6,00	105,0	7	17	196
121	6,11	120,0	2	6	292
122	5,25	121,0	1	15	292
123	4,93	154,0	15	10	167
124	4,80	114,0	15	10	146
125	5,54	131,0	15	16	169
126	5,10	142,0	18	4	128
127	5,06	142,0	22	30	143
128	4,68	153,0	16	8
129	5,40	151,0	17	19	145
130	6,03	172,0	20	12	363

The percentiles to establish the guidelines were set up with the data collected from 130 subjects undergone to study.

 

Table 3. Statistical Results Obtained (9-10 year olds)

	Flying 30 meter test	Jump without impulse	Abdominals 30 sec.	Elbow flexions 30 sec.	600 m race
N	130	130	130	130	129
Min	0,263	90	1	3	121
Max	7,2	187	31	33	420
X	5,48	133,32	17,64	16,42	214,77
S	0,83	19,33	6,25	6,87	74,55
CV	15,1	14,50	35,44	41,85	34,71
10 p	6,47	110	10	8	345,40
20 p	6,11	114	13,8	10	292,00
30 p	5,88	122	15,7	12	235,80
40 p	5,61	128	17	15	206,80
50 p	5,49	132,5	18	16	188,00
60 p	5,28	135,4	19	18	170,20
70 p	5,10	143	20	20	161,40
80 p	4,95	150,2	22	23	153,00
90 p	4,65	159	25,1	26	145,00

The percentiles applied vary from 10 to 90.

 

Table 4. Entry standards of Sport Schools for male soccer in 11-12 year olds

Moments of the application of the standards	Total points	flying 30 m (sec)	Long jump without impulse	Moments of the application of the standards	Total points	Flying 30 m (sec.)
	1	6,06-5,78	121-132	10	7-8	6.24-5.33
	2	5,77-5,41	133-139	11	910	5.32-5-13
	3	5,40-5,23	140-145	12-16	11-12	312-4.59
	4	5,22-5,01	146-150	17-18	13-14	4.58-4.32
Results to enter	5	5,00-4,84	151-154	19	15-16	4.31-4,18
	6	4,83-4,78	155-158	20-21	17-18	417-4.07
	7	4,78-4,56	159-165	22	19	4.06-3.58
Guiding results after first year of training	8	4,55-4,34	166-175	23-24	20-21	3.57-3.48
Guiding results after second year of training	10	Less than 4,34-4,27	More of 175-190	25-26	22-23	Menos de 3.48-3.35

 

Table 5. Data collected to establish the standards (11-12 year olds)

Physical tests 11-12 years old
Nº	Jump without impulse	Abdominals 30 sec.	Elbow flexions 30 sec.	600 m race	Flying 30 meter test
1	4,36	156	30	33	251,00
2	4,22	174	27	30	254,00
3	4,37	174	30	27	253,00
4	4,63	147	20	36	255
5	4,92	135	25	15	309,00
6	4,51	159	21	20	259,00
7	4,48	156	28	30	261,00
8	4,70	146	19	29	263,00
9	4,50	154	24	16	255
10	4,73	147	30	26	249,00
11	4,51	156	22	24	230,00
12	4,34	159	20	16	260,00
13	4,52	151	21	24	237
14	4,87	160	23	24	263
15	4,73	165	21	22	267,00
16	4,60	155	28	30	270,00
17	4,60	150	20	20	266,00
18	4,40	152	25	22	275,00
19	4,97	135	27	24	310,00
20	4,30	165	25	23	262,00
21	4,36	189	25	13	248,00
22	4,74	190	35	37	257,00
23	3,97	176	25	26	230,00
24	4,46	185	34	29	228,00
25	4,07	175	36	24	202
26	4,92	140	33	19	210
27	4,9	145	31	32	215
28	5,34	165	29	21	214
29	5,34	170	34	33	174
30	5,04	152	17	14	293
31	5,11	158,	12	8	363
32	5,000	133	10	12	329
33	5,29	125	12	14	293
34	4,95	140	13	10	332
35	5,81	125	12	8	372
36	5,33	114	12	7	432
37	5,10	117	19	14	298
38	5,03	129	18	10	281
39	4,99	120	10	9	329
40	5,41	120	19	9	348
41	4,53	135	18	17	255
42	4,72	138	19	22	261
43	5,09	137	9	12	359
44	5,30	114	18	15	299
45	5,10	112	9	5	426
46	5,51	124	13	6	372
47	5,76	112	12	2	410
48	5,27	114	12	18	272
49	4,84	118	13	10	291
50	4,36	145	26	31	227
51	4,22	153	20	20	230
52	4,33	133	15	21	258
53	4,92	160	19	20	234
54	4,67	133	15	19	256
55	4,21	145	26	30	227
56	4,32	142	23	19	230
57	4,3	143	24	18	226
58	4,32	140	26	19	228
59	4,36	135	23	20	230
60	4,26	140	25	21	231
61	4,27	148	27	22	232
62	4,28	150	24	21	228
63	4,27	148	23	20	229
64	4,28	150	26	21	181
65	4,22	154	23	23	230
66	5,99	147	20	21	316
67	4,80	152	22	25	305
68	5,25	125	17	14	362
69	6,19	121	18	19	314
70	5,92	132	16	30	274
71	5,61	152	25	18	295
72	4,99	150	27	20	295
73	4,95	190	33	28	275
74	5,40	157	17	16	326
75	4,81	132	25	19	258
76	5,35	172	25	22	241
77	6,02	130	16	15	362
78	4,99	150	27	20	295
79	4,81	122	20	18	241
80	6,20	120	13	12	241
81	5,98	141	25	17	384
82	5,34	179	30	23	253
83	6,11	122	16	15	368
84	4,81	130	20	15	270
85	5,41	166	23	16	308
86	5,01	167	27	24	241
87	6,14	132	16	21	343
88	4,80	139	29	24	258
89	5,40	157	17	16	326
90	4,99	139	28	19	241
91	5,04	152	22	20	311
92	7,14	148	29	29	410
93	5,77	192	21	20	293
94	5,94	174	27	21	256
95	6,36	140	27	33	286
96	5,30	164	27	25	285
97	5,77	158	27	20	514
98	6,42	140	27	22	351
99	6,88	118	24	14	437
100	6,15	135	26	26	279
101	6,37	153	34	15	320
102	5,28	158	27	33	245
103	5,06	155	23	12	316
104	5,04	151	32	27	318
105	5,41	143	24	18	359
106	4,53	159	31	19	324
107	5,60	157	29	21	290
108	4,85	185	26	21	268
109	5,81	137	19	18	451
110	4,69	194	30	33	265
111	5,41	166	24	31	275
112	5,78	152	26	25	284
113	5,18	157	26	25	286
114	5,47	118	22	15	386
115	5,67	134	22	20	358
116	6,03	130	22	18	323
117	5,88	110	18	9	301
118	6,25	120	22	15	390
119	6,31	118	22	8	203
120	5,69	190	14	10	328
121	6,34	130	8	5	401
122	5,25	139	9	13	499
123	5,75	126	23	5	350
124	5,75	126	18	5	350
125	5,13	146	27	30	271
126	4,78	156	19	28	215
127	5,79	160	25	20	231
128	5,88	118	19	5	171
129	5,15	158	13	25	296
130	4,9	175	30	26	215
131	4,19	187	27	27	240
132	5,01	153	19	23	221
133	4,79	159	20	21	282
134	5,32	133	8	20	334
135	5,1	143	10	18	279
136	5,13	146	27	30	271
137	4,78	156	19	28	215
138	5,79	160	25	20	231
139	5,88	118	19	5	172
140	5,75	140	22	18	253
141			24	21
142	6,81	150	22	22	268
143	6,45	150	34	26	242
144	6,93	150	28	21	252
145				22
146				20
147				20
148	6,14	150	17	22	295
149				25
150				23
151	5,17	128	14	15	280
152	5,30	128	12	19	259
153	4,55	132	8	18	232
154	4,78		13		342,22
155	4,82		17		298
156	4,78		18		387
157	4,87		9		337
158	4,82		17		327
159	4,95		20		397
160	4,84		18		384
161	5,44		3		256
162	4,6		18		415
163	5,38		8		429
164	4,5		17		480
165	4,87	207	22	13	324
166	5,19	195	19	12	317
167	5,03	222	15	15	295
168	4,94	215	18	18	273
169	4,75	160	22	19	234
170	4,40	175	23	18	247
171	4,40	175	23	18	247
172	4,62	170	20	15	247
173	4,82	135	22	16	245
174	4,74	146	21	17	225
175	4,60	165	19	9	251
176	5,20	145	19	25	288
177	4,38	148	30	15	262
178	4,46	158	21	12	265
179	4,45	148	20	24	264
180	4,48	175	28	11	263
181	4,35	161	21	15	227
182	4,39	158	20	20	241
183	4,74	155	22	18	226
184	4,21	181	21	20	263
185	4,80	151	24	21	245
186	4,50	158	15	3	261
187	5,53	164	31	12	249
188	4,63	163	28	12	237
189	4,58	199	32	11	244

The percentiles to establish the guidelines were set up with the data collected from 189 subjects undergone to study.

 

Table 6. Statistical results obtained (11-12 year olds).

	Flying 30 meter test	Jump without impulse	Abdominals 30 sec.	Elbow flexions 30 sec.	600 m
N	126	172	184	189	131
Min	4,19	110,0	3	2	171
Max	7,14	222,0	36	37	514
X	5,15	149,80	21,59	18,45	288,94
S	0,65	21,38	6,43	7,63	64,91
CV	12,59	14,27	29,77	41,36	22,46
10 P	6,06	121,1	12,3	5,9	383,98
20 p	5,78	132,0	17,0	12,0	332,80
30 p	5,41	139,0	19,0	15,0	313,10
40 p	5,23	145,0	20,0	18,0	289,20
50 p	5,01	150,0	22,0	19,0	272,00
60 p	4,84	153,6	23,0	20,0	258,40
70 p	4,78	158,0	25,0	22,0	247,00
80 p	4,56	164,8	27,0	24,4	237,60
90 p	4,34	175,0	30,0	29,0	228,00
97P	4,27	190,00	31,85	30,60	215,00

The percentiles applied vary from 10 to 90.

    These results become model indicators to be used by sport federations of the country involved in the soccer debut and are the result of the effort of the coaches, monitors, methodologists and leaders that cooperated with the organization and execution of the tests to Ecuadorian children and teenagers that practice soccer.

    The scales obtained act as a feedback of the training process (Flores, Calero, Arancibia & García, 2014a,b) of the children that systematically train, as it is stated by authors like Cometti (2007) & Ferrer, Moreno & Moreno (2015) by regulating the utmost performance after the first and second years of training in the corresponding age group.

    In that regard as Helsen, Hodges, Winckel & Starkes, (2000) and Helsen, Van Winckel & Williams (2005) affirm, the talent roles, the physical precocity, the systematic practice, the soccer experience and the age as performance variables, are important for the sport performance at the moment of selecting a talent, but the physical determinants, where anthropometric ones are included (Rebelo, Brito, Maia, Coelho-e-Silva, Figueiredo, Bangsbo & Seabra, 2013 ;León, Calero & Chávez, 2014) specify in a mid and long term more probability of success in the detection and selection process, which at the same time act as a key determinant of the sport training process in most Olympic sports.

    The indicators described are in process of approval and they are not definitely completed guidelines, but are continuously undergone to improvements. That implies that the recommendations or points of view will be accepted by the authors in order to achieve a better study and therefore a better result.

Conclusions

    The results shown in tables 2-3 explain by themselves the standards or scales created in the research and become indicators or instruments of reference for the selection of children with a higher level of physical skills to practice soccer.

    Therefore, it has been targeted the goal of creating basic physical scales to select talents in the male Ecuadorian soccer, category 9-12 years old.

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