Football coaches’ perceptions of professional competences according to the professional experience and academic education

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  • Gabriel Cunha Barros Universidad de Oporto
  • Isabel Mesquita Ribeiro Universidad de Oporto
  • M. Perla Moreno Arroyo Universidad de Extremadura
  • Antonio Fernando Boleto Rosado Universidad Técnica de Lisboa
  • Tiago Manuel Tavares Sousa Universidad de Oporto
  • Pedro Filipe Silva Pereira Universidad de Oporto
Keywords: Coaches’ perceptions, professional competences, professional experience, academic education

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to examine football coaches.’ perceptions of professional competences according to the professional experience and academic education in Sport Science and Physical Education. The participants were 81 Portuguese football coaches, who answered to a questionnaire that was applied after construction validation and content validation. The parametric statistic was applied, namely the One-Way Anova test, for the comparison between groups. The results showed that the coaches with high education, in Sport Sciences and Physical Education perceived themselves as more competent on the activities related to training, namely the Annual and Multi-annual planning, the guidance and the education of beginner coaches and the pedagogic and didactic competences. Coaches with more experience perceived themselves as more competent to plan, evaluate and guide training sessions and to guide and manage the education of beginner coaches and players.

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Cunha Barros, G., Mesquita Ribeiro, I., Moreno Arroyo, M. P., Boleto Rosado, A. F., Tavares Sousa, T. M., & Silva Pereira, P. F. (2010). Football coaches’ perceptions of professional competences according to the professional experience and academic education. Sport Psychology Notebooks, 10(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/cpd/article/view/110261
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