A Review of Factors Considered by the Athletes on Accepting their Sport Coaches

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Dias Ren Trevor
Vidya N.

Abstract

Purpose: In India, out of 62 percent of youth population only 1 percent of youths are only taking sports have a profession. In today’s context sports have been grown to an industry and a large number of career opportunities are available. Sports coaching is one as such.  The sports coaches are the major stake holders in promoting their trainees to the higher level in the game. Coaches are considered a role model by young trainees. Since then, there will be many expectations and beliefs on the coaches’. Players benchmark the targets set by their coaches’ to attain their goals. Coaches give intrinsic & extrinsic motivation for trainees by engaging and involving them in the sport.  This is paper has taken a systematic review to understand the players’ perception and expectations on their coaches. Basis of secondary data that the challenges occurring in front of coaches for their sustainability in the field of coaching


Design/Methodology/Approach: The thematic analysis is done by extracting the codes from the literature. This paper is built on the basis of secondary data that the challenges occurring in front of coaches for their sustainability in the field of coaching. The online platform is used to make desktop research. Around 50 research articles have been closely and systematically reviewed to find the research gap.


Findings/Result: The parameters such as support in career goal accomplishment, knowledge on technical component, relational skills, talent search capability and coaching style leads to coaches’ capability and competency level. The different theories are reviewed to understand the efficiency and effectiveness in coaching pedagogy. In this study, the deductive codes have been extracted by the literature and analysed to build the concepts. It also rivals the significance of educating and updating the coaches’ on regular basis.


Paper Type: Thematic analysis

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Dias Ren Trevor, & Vidya N. (2021). A Review of Factors Considered by the Athletes on Accepting their Sport Coaches. International Journal of Management, Technology and Social Sciences (IJMTS), 6(1), 321–329. https://doi.org/10.47992/IJMTS.2581.6012.0148
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