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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science ISSN: 2501 - 1235 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1235 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1069549 Volume 3 │Issue 12 │2017 EVALUATION OF VOCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF FOOTBALL COACHES AND THEIR VISIONS ABOUT THE PROFESSION Muazzez Şaşmaz Ataçocuğui, Mehmet Mustafa Yorulmazlar Marmara University Faculty of Sport Sciences, Turkey Abstract: Football coaches are those who prepare teams for various competitions in technical, tactical, conditioning, strategy and mental contexts by using academic knowledge and experience, and also decide match squad. Football coaches are responsible for the sporting success of the team. Nowadays, a coach is no longer just a technical and tactical coach. From this point of view, football coaching can also be regarded as football business, where the risks associated with professional career are taken the most. Football whose commercial value is increasing day by day is confronted as a workplace where various labor markets take place. In football, labor markets around coaching profession, similar to other labor markets but shaped by the specific characteristics of the profession many experiences are gained by coaches. The aim of this study is to make a general evaluation of the football coach labor market by taking the football coaching profession in the context of the experience of the coaches through their experiences and opinions. Questionnaire technique was applied to obtain data on professional experiences of football coaches in the survey. Survey questions were prepared by us. The obtained data were evaluated in SPSS statistical program and analyzed by frequency and cross tabulation. From this point of view, research is a descriptive model-based research for revealing the general situation of the market. In the findings section of the study, demographic characteristics related to the performance of the coaching profession such as coach license grades, football histories, and educational status are regarded. The quantitative and qualitative findings are related to their professional experience. Although the results of the survey show that Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 119 Muazzez Şaşmaz Ataçocuğu, Mehmet Mustafa Yorulmazlar EVALUATION OF VOCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF FOOTBALL COACHES AND THEIR VISIONS ABOUT THE PROFESSION football coaches are exposed to practices outside of the regulations related to their working life, that these experiences cause social and economic insecurity, that these regulations, which classify coaches and determine the scope and duration of their work, also cause a number of grievances, experience unemployment at various times, that they do not feel secure, that they are unemployed at any moment, and that they have gone through long steps to practice their profession. Keywords: football coach, employment, unemployment, contractual duration, professional experience 1. Introduction Football coaches are one of the main actors in football labor market. The professional processes of football coaches are regulated by the Turkish football federation through the "Instruction of Training and Classification of Technical Men" and "Instruction on the Status and Working Principles of Technical Men". Amateur Technical Man in the Teaching and Classification of Technical Managers Technical Officers and coaches who do not pay any fees except for the expenses (accommodation, materials, insurance and training expenses) related to participation in the football activity and have a written contract with the club, "Personnel who are licensed or accepted by the TFF who have graduated from courses organized by the TFF and who have received a license from the club and who have a written contract with the club in addition to the obligatory expenses related to participation in the football activity". (2016, md.2.e, f, g) The Technical Man in the Instruction and Classification of Technical Managers Instructor express "Technical responsible, coach and amateur coaches". Apart from these definitions that determine the statutory of the football coach, the coach is defined as "a sports person who guides the athletes to their competencies, prepares them, prepares the contests, and leads the sport" by combining his theoretical knowledge with his experience Doğan, 4 . Coaches are responsible for the technical management and execution of football teams. For this reason, a coach should have administrative skills as well as technical aspects. This coach is the product of knowledge, experience, and personality. Targeted training and successful team management require extensive professional knowledge (Erdem, 2005). According to another definition, "A coach is not just about exercising or showing how a sport is done. After he/she interprets the information he receives from sports scientists, sports physicians, and sports psychologists and then compares them with his own experience, he transfers the athlete. Because the data of scientists are theoretical information, they are not suitable for practical application. European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science - Volume 3 │ Issue 12 │ 2017 120 Muazzez Şaşmaz Ataçocuğu, Mehmet Mustafa Yorulmazlar EVALUATION OF VOCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF FOOTBALL COACHES AND THEIR VISIONS ABOUT THE PROFESSION These data, according to the athletes' personality and sportive characteristics, must undergo some changes" Başer, . At the same time, in the evaluation of desired changes, effects of age, sport branches and gender of athletes should also be taken into account Kızılet Bozdoğan and G(ler, . Coaches in Turkish football labor market are classified as follows: UEFA PRO licensed coach, UEFA licensed coach, UEFA B licensed coach, UEFA B licensed coach, TFFA goalkeeper coach, TFF B goalkeeper coach, TFF coach, TFFA licensed coach, TFF B licensed coach, TFF Grassroots C Licensed Coach, TFF Grassroots Volunteer Leader, Futsal Coach, Beach Football Coach, Children's Football Coach, Disabled Football Coach, Match and Performance Analysis Expert, Athletic Performance (Fitness), Player and Match Tracking Expert (Scout)ii. The study areas are arranged in such a way that they will be divided into the league categories according to the license documents they have. In order to be employed as an amateur or professional club as a football coach, it is necessary to have a certificate of a license of the appropriate coach in the respective league. For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejep/article/view/1241 ii Instruction of Training and Classification of Technical Men, article.3. European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science - Volume 3 │ Issue 12 │ 2017 121