Behavioural analysis of a football coach

Title: Behavioural analysis of a football coach Objectives: The goal of this master thesis is to qualitatively evaluate means of didactic interaction of a football coach and his players in youth categories in two league games of the Czech Youth League (Česká liga žáků) and thereby to contribute to new knowledge in this field. Methods: The research is targeted at the behavioural analysis of a football coach. In this thesis methods of spectating and analysis of audio and video records were carried out. The essence of the research is based on the method of the Analysis of didactic interaction (ADI) consisting of 9 categories containing several subcategories. The categories 1 and 4, those which are dedicated to the forms of behaviour, were applied in this thesis. Results: From the results of the analysis it seems obvious that the coach was prevailingly relying on his speeches which he seldomly supported and emphasized with his movement. The movement itself we acknowledge as gestures linked to orders related to game activities during the football game. From the analyzed records of parts of the games the following can be concluded: In the pre-game preparations the instructions with corrections prevail, which is also the case during the game, where spectating is being present to a large extent as well. On..