Sport Communication: Revealing the Use of Instructional Communication on Football Coaching Process

Abstract

ASIFA is one of the most successful international standard football academies in football coaching. This success is inseparable from the communication process between coaches and students during coaching. During this time, research on sports communication highlighted the interaction between coaches and students that had not been widely studied from an instructional communication perspective. Therefore, this research aimed to identify the process of instructional communication between coaches and students in football coaching at ASIFA. This research used a descriptive qualitative method with three data collection techniques, i.e., observation, a document study, and in-depth interviews with coaches, students, and football coaching experts. The research results indicated that the process of instructional communication between coaches and students in football coaching at ASIFA could be identified through six interrelated elements: 1) Context; 2) Source – Sender; 3) Content – Message; 4) Instructional Strategy; 5) Receiver; and 6) Feedback. Through the perspective of instructional communication, it was found that there were conceptual differences between the roles of coaches and students in the coaching process. Practice-based coaching tended to use a rhetorical approach (one-way communication). Meanwhile, non-practical-based coaching used a relational approach (two-way communication). Then, this research contributed by producing a quadrant model of coaching communication in football coaching.

Basic Football Skill Instruments for Indonesian Junior Players

“…The character of the Indonesian football player in question is that he has a posture that is not taller than other races but has the speed to run at close range (Rahim, 2022;Sthevanie et al, 2018;Wibowo, 2020). Based on Filanesia, he means, among other things, a fast playing style according to the strengths of Indonesians (Wahyudi & Laturrakhmi, 2022;Weda & Kurniawan, 2022), development levels based on age are divided into three categories: 6-9 years, 10-13 years, and 14-17 years (Munar et al, 2023;Nento , M., Sulaiman, S., & Hartono, 2023). This means that the test model currently needed by football school coaches is one that modifies and adopts the existing types of soccer skill tests, elaborates on the characteristics of Indonesian players, and is based on age clusters in Filanesia.…”