FOOTBALL TALENT SCOUTING APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT “SPORT SEARCH” METHOD BASED ON ANDROID

This study aims to (1) produce a football talent scouting application product for students aged 11-14 years, (2) find out the use of soccer talent scouting applications using the android-based sport search method. This research is a development research with the Borg and Gall approach model through 8 stages, namely: (1) potential and problems, (2) information gathering, (3) product design. (4) Design validation. (5) Design revisions, (6) small-scale trials, (7) revisions of small-scale trials, (8) large-scale trials, and (9) Final Products. The subject of this study was a soccer school coach (SSB) in Medan City with licenses D, C, and B. The trials carried out included two stages, namely small group trials with 10 coaches and large group trials with 25 coaches. The results of this study are (1) a football talent scouting application product to identify and evaluate the potential for soccer talent of students aged 11-14 years, (2) The feasibility level of this product is known through a validation assessment of material and media experts. For the validation of the first material expert, the level of achievement is 90.00% in the Very feasible category and the second material expert validation is the level of 94.00% in the Very Eligible category and validation of the media expert at the level of 96.15% in the Very Eligible category. This product also went through a small group trial phase with an achievement rate of 77.67% in the Eligible category. Meanwhile, at the trial stage for this large group of products, the achievement rate was 87.27% in the Very Eligible category. Thus, it can be concluded that this talent scouting application product is suitable / very feasible to use.