Coach Education in Football is the first book to explicitly explore social, cultural, and historical aspects, by providing critical insight into football coach education programmes from across the globe.
Coach Education in Football is the first book to explicitly explore social, cultural, and historical aspects, by providing critical insight into football coach education programmes from across the globe.
Association Football is undoubtedly a global sport, with millions of individuals participating in more than 200 countries. The need for an educated football coaching workforce to deliver appropriate coaching practices has never been greater. Formal coach education, which is often the primary medium for developing football coaches, is socially constructed, meaning an array of social, cultural, and historical factors underpin the design and delivery of any provision. Coach Education in Football: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives is the first book to explicitly explore these aspects, by providing critical insight into football coach education programmes from across the globe.
Each chapter, organised via a central theme, highlights a contemporary issue affecting football coach education and development within a specific country, offering insights into the contextual opportunities and challenges. The book covers essential topics including the progression of female football coaches, coaches perspectives towards current provision, technological and pedagogical advances, and the historical development of formal coach education. Each chapter demonstrates the complexities associated with developing football coaches within grassroots and high-performance domains, while providing recommendations for national governing bodies, policy makers, and coach developers. This book is the first of its kind to explicitly investigate football coach education globally.
This accessible book is an important read for students, academics, and practitioners with an interest in sports coaching, coach education, and football.
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"This book is the first of its kind in providing conceptual and empirical insight into specific football coach education programmes across a range of countries and contexts. The book will be a valuable resource for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in understanding the facilitating and constraining factors in developing football coaches of the future, and will have broader appeal to those studying and working in sports coaching, sports development and sports management."
Dr. Jimmy OGorman, Senior Lecturer in Sports Development, Management and Coaching. Dept of Sport and Physical Activity, Edge Hill University, UK
Section 1: Introducing Football Coach Education,
1. Coach Education in
Football: Setting the Scene,
2. Developing Politically Astute Football
Coaches: An Evolving Framework for Coach Learning and Coaching Research,
Section 2: High-Performance Football Coach Education,
3. Contemporary
Football Management Education in Scotland: Legacy, Learning, and Leading,
4.
Coach Development in High-Performance Brazilian Football: Continuous Learning
in Professional Clubs,
5. The Coach Education System for Elite Football
Coaches in Singapore, Section 3: Youth and Amateur Football Coach Education,
6. Understanding Grassroots Football Coach Education in England through
Creative Fiction: Connecting the Past to the Present,
7. Coaching
Implications for Amateur/Grassroots 60+ Small-Sided Football: Strategic Team
and Player Development in a Canadian and International Context,
8. Cherish
the Local: Swedish Youth Football Coaches Perspectives on Coach Education,
Learning, and Support, Section 4: Supporting the Progression of Female
Football Coaches,
9. Enhancing the Learning and Development of Female Coaches
in the Football Association of Ireland,
10. A Historical Perspective on the
Development of Female Football Coaches in South Africa, Section 5: Critical
Reviews of Current Football Coach Education Provision,
11. The Football Coach
Education System in Botswana: Current Challenges and Future Directions,
12.
The Sustainability and Implementation of Course Content in Dutch Football
Coach Education,
13. The Evolution of Football Coaching in Australia: An
Historical Overview and Research Review of Coach Accreditation, Education,
and Development, Section 6: Lessons learned from Empirical Research into
Football Coach Education,
14. A Coach Education Initiative in the Context of
Norwegian Grassroots Football: Implementation and Lessons Learned,
15.
Breaking New Ground in the United States: Lessons Learned from a Masters
Degree in Soccer Coaching Utilising a Blended Learning Format,
16. Coach
Developers Perspectives on a Masters Football Coach Development Programme
in Colombia, Section 7: Technological and Pedagogical Developments within
Football Coach Education,
17. Developing the Coach Education System in Japan:
Tactical Analysis through Objective Data in Football,
18. Coach Education in
United States Youth Soccer: Same Game, New Paradigm. Play-Practice-Play,
19.
Mobile Devices in German Football Coaching: Implications for Coach Education
by Investigating Coaches' Usage, Access, And Guidance, Section 8: Conclusion,
20. Closing Reflections on Football Coach Education: Towards a Rhizomatic
Approach
Thomas M. Leeder is a Lecturer in Sports Coaching & Pedagogy within the School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences at the University of Essex, UK. Thomas primarily teaches and researches across the overlapping areas of coach education and development, coach learning, sport pedagogy, and the sociology of sports coaching. Thomas also has experience of working as both a coach and coach developer across performance and development domains
