Organizing and conducting a sports selection of footballers in Brazil

Football plays an important role in the global sports culture, uniting millions of people around the world. The most popular sport of today not only develops motor, psycho-physiological, technical and tactical skills of athletes, but also reflects the social, cultural and economic aspects of modern society. In this context, one of the most successful football countries is Brazil, which has given the world not only outstanding and phenomenal players, but also formed an original model of sports selection and selection that deserves a deep, scientifically-based study. Sports selection is the primary basis of the system of specialized education and sports training for athletes. It is at the selection stages that it is decided who will be able to develop in professional sports and who will remain outside the rigid system. In football, this process is of particular importance, as the game requires a combination of highly specific qualities – physical, technical, social and psychological, and competitive and game characteristics. The football training system in Brazil is based on special principles that combine mass participation, technical excellence, creativity and social context. Young Brazilians are involved in the game from an early age, both in club academies and in street conditions, which allows them to develop intuitive game thinking, non-standard technique and game improvisation. This approach differs significantly from European or post-Soviet systems, which are dominated by standardized assessment criteria and a structured training system. That is why Brazil's experience is extremely important to analyze, especially in t he context of finding ways to modernize national sports selection systems. The purpose of the study – to analyze the system of sports selection of football players in Brazil, to determine its specifics and to assess the possibility of adapting such approaches to the conditions of Ukrainian football.