“…The positive psycho-emotional impact of sports largely depends on both the athletes' satisfaction with the results achieved and the emergence of positive communication and trusting social relationships during the training process (Valle et al, 2019). Communicative competence is the basis of professional communication, gaining professional experience and achieving success, which makes it important to study the issue of communicative competence of athletes (Lakhtadyr et al, 2021;Popovych et al, 2021). However, the specifics of the formation of communicative psychological characteristics of athletes still remain insufficiently studied, especially in the context of using innovative digital educational technologies for their development, which determines the relevance of the topic of this study.…”