Towards the reflective football coach from qualitative analysis

Abstract

Kassim, M. (2014). Towards the reflective football coach from qualitative analysis. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 9(Proc1), pp.S249-S256. This study is the first attempt in Malaysia with a qualitative approach to elucidate the behaviour with respect to performance of football coaches especially at grass root level. This study also involves the Chief Coach (n=2), the Assistant Coach (n=2), the Youth Department Officer (n=1), the Executive Secretary of the Forest Football Academy (n=1) and the Players (n=40). The data obtained from the interview and observation techniques have been analysed in accordance with the phase of analysis. For purpose of description of the analysis, it begins with the interview transcripts and progressing to the creation of 'tags', to 'properties', and then finally to the highest order categories'. Apart from the interview, I employed observation technique as a means of collecting data for this study. The researcher does not have to speak to the respondent and ask them about their own behaviour and actions. The researcher can simply watch as individuals act and speak and this enables the researcher to collect data first hand, The findings of this study revealed that i) the environment factors highly influence the coaches behaviour; ii) the component of professionalism, knowledge, behaviour and players performance were related and each of the component has influenced from other factors such as organization, significant experience, environment, training and competition. The findings also showed that the behavioural aspect, is to exhibit their strong commitment to make the players follow the activities constructed. Hence, the coaches had successfully demonstrated positive behaviour by emphasizing fun and enjoyment that helped the players enjoy their training sessions and this showed that the coaches' behaviour is important in imparting knowledge to the players. In conclusion, the findings of the present study thus offer significant contribution to the existing literature and conceptual development on coaching by looking at the relationship between the coaches' behaviour during the coaching process.

The Development of Malaysian State Sports Schools Football Coaches' Key Themes in Coaching Process

“…From this point of view, the researcher intended to know how knowledge operates interrelated with the coaching process, which included a cycle that depends on facets of observation, analysis, and planning. In reality, [10] thoroughly proposed a review of the curriculum knowledge of coaches on understanding in the training process and creating a coaching model in Malaysian perspectives for future studies. This study's researcher consideration is to focus on youth football and its coaching development in Malaysian State Sports Schools, which are considered as the main feeder for national youth football team selection [11].…”

Malaysian State Sports Schools Football Coaching Process Key Themes Development: Constant Comparison Method in Data Analysis

“…The study is also to see whether the findings of these key development themes are in line with the other models of effective coaching process that are widely used in other sports (Fairs, 1987;Franks et al, 1988;Sherman et al, 1997;Lyle, 2002). However, according to Kassim (2014), although all these models have real advantages, but almost all coaching processes do not lead to different environmental perspectives. Although this research referred to many models, the attention is more focused on the Effective Coaching Model of Cote and Gilbert (2009) to look at the similarities and differences from an external perspective.…”