Abstract

BOTELHO, Sérgio; MESQUITA, Isabel  and  MORENO, M. Perla. The importance of verbal intervention during volleyball competition: A comparison between male and female team’s coaches. Rev. Port. Cien. Desp. [online]. 2005, vol.5, n.2, pp.174-183. ISSN 1645-0523.

The purpose of the present study was to find the importance of verbal intervention by the female and male Volleyball team’s coaches during the competition. Ten coaches from junior teams (5 male teams and 5 female teams) volunteer to participate in this study. For each group 15 sets were considered. 1790 information episodes were analysed. All together: 1349 during the game, 388 in overtime and 53 during substitution, using the category system elaborated by Moreno. The results showed that coaches prefer the information about their own team, all the time. In the substitution time, no information about the rival team was given. With regard to the receiver it is predominantly individual based during the game, fundamentally collective in time outs and individual during substitutions. When referring to the game actions, the information that doesn’t refer to any particular action, non-specific, is the most used in all moments. During the game, the coaches of the male teams generally emit more information than those of the female teams. They emit more information about their own team, with non-specific aspect and directed to the collective.

Keywords : coach; volleyball; verbal intervention; competition.

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