The importance of sport as a social, psychological, and cultural agenda in today’s world can by no means be denied. This is, as a rule, reflected in all its aspects through the language of media. The present descriptive study has thus tried to investigate how the language of sports media shape sport consumers such as coaches, players, the audience, and sporting officials at large. For this purp...

Studies exploring bullying in sport psychology remain relatively limited despite various media reports of the abusive practice some professional soccer coaches. This research explores coaches’ views academies and how it is framed relation to banter. Five coaches were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. The methodology analysis guided by interpretative phenomenological analysis....

Abstract---In this paper, basic offense and defense events of soccer game have been undertaken due its significance for the fans in one side, game analysts and team coaches on other side. Offense and defense strategies and capabilities are the most important events in the soccer game because they determine the ability of controlling the play, penetration and even scoring. A straight forward and...

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...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Fatigue impairs exercise activity in high school students, and it is detrimental to explore aerobic training when fatigue cannot be alleviated. This factor limits the ability exploit full potential of young athletes for soccer. Objective: Implement a healthy development protocol soccer application school. Methods: article used literature review among other research method...

The paper focuses on women’s soccer, one of the fastest growing sports in Australia, and in particular on the aspect of the ethnic background of Adelaide-based clubs. The paper aims to illustrate the shift in ethnic image that has occurred in recent years amongst Adelaide clubs, formerly associated with the Italian community, and to investigate the reason(s) behind this shift. Methods include i...

This study was aimed at capturing the components comprising shared mental models (SMM) and the training methods used to address SMM in one athletic program context. To meet this aim, two soccer coaches from the same collegiate program were interviewed and observed extensively during practices and games throughout the 2009–2010 season. In addition, documents (e.g., players’ positioning on free k...

The cognitive-motor performance (CMP), defined here as the capacity to rapidly use sensory information and transfer it into efficient motor output, represents a major contributor to performance in almost all sports, including soccer. Here, we used a high-technology system (COGNIFOOT) which combines a visual environment simulator fully synchronized with a motion capture system. This system allow...

BACKGROUND Injury knowledge and beliefs influence uptake of prevention programmes, but the relationship between knowledge, beliefs and adherence remains unclear. AIM To describe injury knowledge and beliefs among youth female soccer coaches and players, and to identify the relationship between these factors, different delivery strategies of the FIFA 11+ programme and adherence. METHODS A su...