Jordanian Coach Leadership Style in The Mind of The Football Players

Shamil Daghistani, Rezian-na Muhammed Kassim

Since coach leaderships plays important role in the coaching professional development, interest around the football coaching become great interest of most sport management researchers. There is great interest around the topic of coaching leadership style but few case studies that have been done address from the view point of the players. While there is a plentiful amount of literature about the topics of the various coaching roles and support needed for coaching, a study of the in the understand the real phenomena; of coaching style has not been conducted in the setting of Jordanian Football Industry. This study assumes that most. It is not known about the range of coaching leaderships experiences and how this experience accepted by the younger players. Therefore, this study offers information that addresses this gap in the sport management literature. This qualitative study used the theme of coach leadership styles as ground theory as a means to look into the real experience of the player and interviewed 10 players during one of the football camp held in the county. The themes of this study suggest that it is important to establish goals and guidelines for an exemplary of good leadership styles. In adding, the study recommends significant pieces of good coaching leaderships accepted by the Jordanian football culture. Recommendation to implementing successful leadership style in coaching programs are discussed further.