This study investigated challenges perceived by coaches when working with elite women’s soccer teams. Six men and four women experience in the first Norwegian League or national team participated. Semi-structured interviews were carried out, data was analyzed using thematic interpretational analysis. Participants identified professionalism, early-career termination, mental characteristics, intr...

OBJECTIVES Evaluate the effect of a anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention program coaching workshop on elite-level youth soccer coaches' behavioral determinants to implement a injury prevention program and describe coaches' subsequent injury prevention program implementation compliance. DESIGN Descriptive study. METHODS We evaluated a soccer club's coaches' behavioral determinants re...

The principal aims of the study were to define different profiles of cohesion and perceived efficacy in soccer players and to measure their differences in performance. The subjects were 235 soccer players in the under-18 category who played in the National League in Spain and 15 coaches whose ages ranged from 29 to 45 years. Diverse instruments to assess cohesion, perceived efficacy, and expect...

Madden (2004) and Madden and Ruther (2009) provide evidence that African American National Football League (NFL) head coaches significantly out-performed their white counterparts between 1990 and 2002. They conclude that this evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that African Americans had to be better coaches than whites in order to be hired as a head coach in the NFL. In 2002, the NFL pr...

Our objective is to find the five best college sports coaches of past century for three different sports. We decided to look at men's basketball, football, and baseball. We wanted to use an approach that could definitively determine team skill from the games played, and then use a machine-learning algorithm to calculate the correct coach skills for each team in a given year. We created a networ...

Roboterfußballsysteme gelten als ideale Testplattform für Forschungen im Bereich autonomer, kooperierender Multiagentensysteme. Autonomie bei gleichzeitiger Kooperation – das ist die Aufgabe, der sich jedes Robotsoccer-Team zu stellen hat. Die Fußball spielenden Agenten des Dortmund University Robot Soccer Teams bedienen sich bei der Lösung ihrer Aufgaben eines weiteren Agenten, des Coaches.

The interactions of professional football coaches and teams in the National Football League (NFL) form a complex social network. This network provides a great opportunity to analyze the influence that coaching mentors have on their protegés. In this paper, we use this social network to identify notable coaches and characterize championship coaches. We also utilize the coaching network to learn ...

Research has found that athletes, particularly those involved in "aesthetically oriented" sports, experience significant pressures for thinness and are at increased risk for developing eating disorders. This study targeted cheerleading coaches as potential change agents by training them to recognize the symptoms of eating disorders and reduce the pressures for thinness among their squads. Cheer...