Systematizing coaches''eye for talent': Player assessments based on expert coaches' subjective talent criteria in top-level youth soccer

N Jokuschies, V Gut… - International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Although talent selection in professional soccer mainly relies on the subjective judgment of
scouts and coaches, little is known to date about top-level soccer coaches' conceptions of …

Elite cricket coach education: A Bourdieusian analysis

RC Townsend, C Cushion - Sport, Education and Society, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The social structures within coach education have been largely unexplored, undiscussed,
and treated as unproblematic in contributing to coach learning, both in research and …

Analysis of the research methodology in Spanish doctoral theses on handball. A systematic review

A Antúnez, SJ Ibáñez, S Feu - International Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The objective of this investigation was to analyze scientific production assessed by indexed
doctoral theses in the Ordered Spanish Theses (TESEO) database, on the topic of the sport …

Exploring formalized elite coach mentoring programmes in the UK:'We've had to play the game'

R Sawiuk, WG Taylor, R Groom - Sport, Education and Society, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Formalized mentoring programmes have been implemented increasingly by UK sporting
institutions as a central coach development tool, yet claims supporting formal mentoring as …

Translation, intensification and fabrication: professional football academy coaches' enactment of the Elite Player Performance Plan

J O'Gorman, M Partington, P Potrac… - Sport, Education and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The micro-level enactment of elite sport policy has received little critical coverage in the
sociology of sport subdiscipline. This paper provides original insights into how coaches …

Doing hybrid management work in elite sport: the case of a head coach in top-level rugby union

ET Hall, S Gray, A Martindale, J Sproule… - Sport Management …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT HIGHLIGHTS Hybrid management, leadership and coaching work involved
navigating complex webs of relations. Strategic interaction generated “buy-in”, space and …

Investigating the alignment between coaches' ideological beliefs and academy philosophy in professional youth football

J Hall, E Cope, RC Townsend… - Sport, Education and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The impacts of professional sporting culture and institutional discourse on coaching
practices and ideologies have largely been unconsidered and undiscussed. Understanding …

Power and knowledge in a coach mentoring program

C Zehntner, J McMahon - Sports Coaching Review, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In order to broaden our understanding of beginner (mentee) coach learning, we must
consider how coach education, in particular prescribed mentoring programs may come to …

Emotions, identity, and power in video-based feedback sessions: tales from women's professional football

S Magill, L Nelson, R Jones… - Emotions in Sport …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
While video-based feedback has become an increasingly salient feature of practice in high
performance sport, it has received relatively little attention in the coaching literature. Data for …

The career experiences of football association coach educators: Lessons in micropolitical literacy and action

A Allanson, P Potrac, L Nelson - Qualitative Research in Sport …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Coach education has been the subject of increasing investigation in recent years. While
such inquiry has provided important insights into coaches' engagements with various forms …