This study's purpose is to prove the communication skills levels of football trainers according to perceptions of football players. The universe of the research is formed by 178 football players who participated in the football tournament amongst the second league universities in Şanlıurfa between 30 th April and 5 th May in 2013. The sample of the research is composed of 117 football players who took part in the research voluntarily. The data of the study were collected with 'Trainer Communication Skills Scale' 'in the type of 5-Likert, consisting of 48 items and one size which was developed by Yılmaz and his colleagues. Arithmetic mean and Anova tests were used in statistical analysis of the study. According to the results obtained in this descriptive study, the level of communication skills of the trainers was adequate but at the level required to be developed (X=3, 96± .523). In addition, according to the results of the research, the communication skills levels of the coaches of ages between 18-21 years were found to be higher than the ages of 22-25 and 26-and above age groups.

In general, the trainer's technical abilities must be mastered by the trainer. The reason is that those who become coaches are generally former athletes. They are also have training certificates from various training and coaching clinics. However, the ability to communicate in coaching is not necessarily fully mastered by most coaches. The purpose of this research was to add theoretical development about the study of sports coaching communication, especially in the process of athlete physical and mental training by using descriptive qualitative research approaches. The results showed that the coaching communication patterns developed in the training process and outside the training. The form of coaching communication during and outside training is generally face-to-face. The method used in coaching communication is to use lectures and demonstrations as well as to involve video media to further stimulate achievement motivation for each athlete. The approach taken in coaching comm...

Interpersonal communication is the key to success in communication between coaches and athletes to understand and know the state of an athlete. The purpose of the study was to determine the interpersonal communication skills possessed by prospective trainers. The research method used a descriptive method with survey techniques related to the interpersonal communication skills of prospective trainers. The number of samples in this study was 105 samples with a sampling technique using purposive samples. The sample used in this study is a prospective trainer who has currently completed the basic material and is in the process of completing the advanced material. The results of this study obtained data: 1) Session 1: Sending clear messages, getting a score of 60% (Need more consistent attention); 2) Session 2: Listening Ability scored 56.19% (Need more consistent attention); 3) Session 3: Giving and Getting Feedback scored 60% (Need more consistent attention), 4) Session 4: Handling Emotional Interactions scored 60% (Need more consistent attention). These results are considered still not high enough, considering that prospective coaches will meet and deal with athletes who have very different characteristics. So, it is hoped that the prospective trainer can improve interpersonal communication skills (not only the ability to train). In this study, it is still limited to find out and collect data on the interpersonal communication skills of prospective trainers. Interpersonal communication improvement programs will be very possible for future research.

This article looks at subjective beliefs among sport coaches in terms of what they consider to be effective communication during practice. A sample of 36 different opinions about different underlying aims for communication, and how this affects athletes’ abilities to understand better (knowing), to perform better (doing), and/ or improve their focus, was presented to 23 sport coaches from different top level sports. A sample from a concourse of statements was presented to the coaches who were asked to consider the statements regarding what they thought are optimal communication during practice in action. The authors develop their analysis by employing the Q methodology. Four different factors emerged from the factor analysis, and one stronger factor had 18 cases when mixed cases were included. In general, coaches agree that during practice they must stimulate their athletes to be focused. In order to do this, their communication must be based on information and concepts that both co...

ASIFA is one of the most successful international standard football academies in football coaching. This success is inseparable from the communication process between coaches and students during coaching. During this time, research on sports communication highlighted the interaction between coaches and students that had not been widely studied from an instructional communication perspective. Therefore, this research aimed to identify the process of instructional communication between coaches and students in football coaching at ASIFA. This research used a descriptive qualitative method with three data collection techniques, i.e., observation, a document study, and in-depth interviews with coaches, students, and football coaching experts. The research results indicated that the process of instructional communication between coaches and students in football coaching at ASIFA could be identified through six interrelated elements: 1) Context; 2) Source – Sender; 3) Content – Message; 4)...

Communication management may encourage the self-confidence in an individual and it will also lead to the closeness or bonding between coaches and athletes. In addition, communication management is also believed will help in increasing the ability and preparedness upon the athletes for each game and competition. Nowadays, coach-athlete relationship had becoming outrageous studies as past study shows that despite having good relationship, it may also help in reducing stress, and conflict among them, not only that it can also enhance their athletes' satisfaction and reduce burn out. It was proven that coach-athlete relationship is very important in creating a positive environment around the coach and players. This study focused on the communication management and coach-athlete relationship among the team sport athlete in Perlis. A total of 100 questionnaires were distributed. The data collected were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) version 22. Pearson correlation was used in determining the relationship between communication management and coach-athlete relationship. The results proved that there was a significant between communication management and coach-athlete relationship. It was suggested that for future studies, the study could focus on identifying the mediating factors that influence the relationship between communication management and coach-athlete relationship.