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AUTHOR
Sakari Holopainen
The role of leadership in a national team’s success
Every elite football team wants to maximize their success. Especially in international football, smaller footballing countries need to perform well as underdogs when pursuing qualification to the group stage phase of international tournaments. With limited player options, development of leadership within the team might be one solution to achieve better results. The purpose of this study was to find out team members’ perceptions on what kind of leadership behaviours and leadership structures occur in a men’s football national team participating in the UEFA Euro 2020 and how those are connected to the team’s success. Due to the precise nature of the target sample, we applied a qualitative app…
Viesteissä on voimaa valmennuksessa
Valmentajan sanallinen ja sanaton viestintä vaikuttavat vahvasti valmennettavien urheilusuoritukseen ja hyvinvointiin kasvokkain taphtuvissa valmennustilanteissa. nonPeerReviewed
Training and motivation in childhood and adolescence in Finnish elite footballers at different phases of their athletic careers
This study retrospectively explored 1) early specialization and hours of training in childhood and adolescence and 2) the interrelations of different types of motivation in four samples of elite male footballers in different phases of their athletic careers (N=91): Finnish first-tier players (n=23), youth national team players (U19 and U21; n=33), national team players (n=22), and Finland’s so-called Golden Generation players of the 1990s and 2000s (n=13). For this study, the Golden Generation was defined by FAF as footballers who had played at least ten official World cup or European championship qualifying games between the years 1996‒2008 and played in international top leagues during th…