Coaches’ Perspectives about the Reasons behind Dropping Out of Sports in Wrestlers

It has been known that amateur or professional athletes quit competing because of personal and socio-economic reasons such as lack financial, technical, family support, motivation for a future career. Especially, it common in Turkish wrestling many elite wrestlers at an early age. This research aims to determine the why sport, according coaches. A qualitative method was used conduct study. The population included 293 volunteer coaches who were active sports clubs fifty-one different cities Turkey. Participating consist experience levels, from beginner elite-level national head While descriptive statistics characteristics participants, data done through content analysis. obtained with four open-ended questions asked After interview, opinions written down based on answers given questions. In this study, example question, “Did any your wrestling?” When asked, “If answer is yes, do you think 173 (59.04%) out stated they due anxiety, 70 (23.89%) family, 30 (10.23%) disability, 17(5.80%) coach, 3(1.02%) friends. According coaches, main reason drop sport concern about future.