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Az edző–sportoló kapcsolat egy labdarúgó akadémián
The Coach–Athlete Relationship at a Football Academy

Author(s): Máté Kasuba
Subject(s): Sports Studies, Sociology of Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: soccer; academy; talent development; coach–athlete relationship

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to discover the problematics of talent-development, success-rate, coach–athlete relationship and family, based on the opinions of an elite soccer academy’s coaches and players. The research was carried out in a Hungarian elite soccer academy. With the help of a questionnaire specially designed for this purpose, I surveyed the academy’s full-time coaches (N1 = 9) and the U19 team of the club (N2 = 18). The results of my study back up the researches of the specialised literature that the coaches and players must be more emphatic and open towards each other. They should get to know the other as a human being, thus our junior training might be more efficient and successful.

  • Issue Year: 27/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 121-128
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Hungarian