The Professional Skills of The Coach in Collective Sports

Abstract

Introduction: The team sports coach is the fundamental manager of the success or team failure, his effective performance is proportional to expertise and the knowledge domain, directly related to the professional skills he possesses. Objective: To determine the level and importance of the competencies of the collective sports coach. Methods: theoretical-descriptive research with structural order and qualitative-correlational analysis, applying an intentional non-probabilistic sampling to select two independent groups of 22 specialists (Group 1: 11 national and Group 2: 11 international), studying 13 competencies related to collective sports coach. Results: The order of importance issued by the national specialists began with the lowest indicator in “DO” (3.45), the indicator “MC”, “TEIC” and “CS” with the same average score (3.91), the indicators “DTIC” and “CR” (4.09), indicator “G” (4.36), indicators “CCTP” and “C” (4.55), indicators “T”, “DM” and “L” (4.64) and the “V” indicator (4.73) respectively. In international specialists, I start with the lowest value in “CS” (3.91), the “DO” indicator (4), the “V” indicator (4.36), the “C” (4.55), the “CCTP” (4.64), the “CR”, “L” and “TEIC” indicators (4.73), the “T”, “DM” and “MC” indicators (4.82), the “DTIC” indicator (4.91) and indicator “G” (5) respectively. Conclusions: The theoretical importance shows a qualification of the competences studied with a level between "Medium" to "Very High", evidencing the need to improve at the national level some aspects related to the training management process.