Exploring the everyday realities of grass-roots football coaching: towards a relational perspective |
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| Authors: | Paul Potrac Lee Nelson Jimmy O’Gorman |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sport and Physical Activity, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UKpotracp@edgehill.ac.uk;3. Department of Sport and Physical Activity, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK |
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| Abstract: | While scholars have increasingly engaged with the (micro)political and emotional experiences of coaches in professional and semi-professional football, little attention has been given to grass-roots coaches’ understandings of these issues. The aim of this paper is to outline one possible research agenda that could contribute to the development of a rich and increasingly nuanced understanding of the everyday realities of being a grass-roots football coach. In particular, we consider (volunteer) coaches’ participation in grass-roots football to be an inherently relational endeavour. Following the presentation of a creative fiction that is based upon our shared experiences of being grass-roots football coaches, we then illustrate how relational thinking might be productively applied to exploring the social, (micro)political and emotional features of grass-roots football coaching. |
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