Factors that Bring Football Teams Close to Victory in the Perception of Coaches

Abstract

In Physical Education, soccer is a recurrent theme in research as a investigate subject. Moreover, soccer persists as a sport of enormous popularity in the world, just as it is present in the culture and daily lives of South American peoples, especially Brazilians. The choice in this research was to treat soccer in its academic insertion, considering the Critical Success Factors (CSF) theory. The objective of the study was to raise the profile of Soccer coaches who work in Brazil. In addition, to characterize their relationship with the modality and identify the most relevant factors for the success of the teams, according to their perception. The methodological approach had three stages. The first one allowed the identification of these factors, the second one aimed at elaborating and validating the questionnaire, and the third one was the application of the questionnaire to soccer coaches. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: The number of coaches who answered the questionnaire was 89. The collected data allow us to infer that the participant coaches are active in the Formation manifestation or Base Categories (47%) and High Performance (27%). Conclusions: The soccer coaches in Brazil are composed mainly by white men with Physical Education degree, acting in an amateur/semiprofessional way in the Base and High Performance categories. The South and Southeast regions of Brazil have the largest number of coaches. The dimensions People Management and Economic Management had the highest index of agreement among the soccer coaches in relation to the CSF theory.