Sports Coaching in Europe

This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context.

Auteur

Dave Day is Professor of Sports History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where his research focuses on the history of coaching and training, the development of swimming and swimming communities, and the gendered nature of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sport and leisure.

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Contributors

Introduction
***Dave Day

• Chapter 1. Intangible Cultural Heritages: British Sports Coaching and Amateurism.
  ***Dave Day

• Chapter 2. Building the New Man: Transnational Training and Trainers in the Netherlands before the First World War.
  **Nick Piercey

  Chapter 3. 'Science Says': Swedish Sports Coaching and Science During the Twentieth Century.
  ***Daniel Svensson and Robert Svensson

• Chapter 4. Gender Equity and Sports Coaching in Norway: Political Discourses and Developmental Trajectories from 1970 to 2020.
  ***Anne Tjønndal

• Chapter 5. Women's Work: Gender and the Coaching Profession in British Rowing.
  ***Lisa Taylor

• Chapter 6. Sports Coaching in France: Between an Eclectic Context and Foreign Influences (1852-1970). *Part I: Sports Coaching: An Unknown Notion in an Eclectic Sporting Context (1852-1945).
  **Jean-François Loudcher, Julien Krier and Eric Claverie

• Chapter 7. Sports Coaching in France: Between an Eclectic Context and Foreign Influences (1820-1970). Part II: From Foreign Influences to the Invention of a French Coaching Method (1940-1970).
  ***Serge Vaucelle

• Chapter 8. The Influence of Foreign Coaches on the Development of Italian Sport.
  ***Gherardo Bonini, Sergio Giuntini and Nicola Sbetti

• Chapter 9. The Development of the Spanish Coach: Franco's Dictatorship to Democracy (1939-1992).
  ***Carlos García-Martí and Juan Antonio Simón

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