(School of Physical Education,Huazhong Normal University,Wuhan 430079,China) Abstract: The authors reviewed the literature on studying the process of selecting talented teenage soccer players in developed countries, induced and deduced it, and concluded that the essences of the process of selecting talented teenage soccer players are as follows: find more and better talents in soccer popularization; determine a talent evaluation system that bases its core on technical indexes; comprehensively care about talent development from the perspective of physiology, psychology and sociology; establish a dynamic selection and cultivation system that combines discovery and confirmation with development. Research directions in the future are to establish a com-prehensively and dynamically optimized database by integrating multiple disciplines, and to make models of the process of selecting sports talents age specific. Key words: competition and training;soccer player;talent selection;teenager;abroad;overview |