Analysis of the motivational speech held by the National team coach before the final FIFA U-20 World Cup match

Abstract

In modern literature, it is most ooen stated that a sports coach should be moral, autoritative, educated, communicative, etc. Undoubtedly, a coach should be such a person, but we know relatively little about what a successful coach really is. A coach is driven by his knowledge, experience, but also by his implicit philosophy, i.e. deeper and hidden motivational factors, beliefs and attitudes about himself, his own role as well as about individual athletes or a team as a whole. Practice has shown that these coaching attributes aaect functioning of a sports team. e aim of this paper was a pedagogical overview of a sports coach's educational work. e subject of this paper referred to the knowledge that could be classi-ed into the implicit philosophy of a successful coach. e methodological context was the application of the discourse analysis in semantic and meaningful identiication of a successful coach's motivational speech. Searching for an answer to the aim and subject of this paper, we performed the analysis of the motivational speech held by the national coach Pau-novic to the players of Serbian U-20 football national team before the nal FIFA U-20 World Cup match against Brazil in New Zealand (2015). Applying some methodological steps, the speech of the coach Paunović was divided into three discourse units, analyzed through the messages he sent to the players. e results of the analysis indicate that the coach's messages were characterized by dignity as well as by calling for unity and responsibility. ere were no messages relating to depreciation or exaggeration of the opponent's team, there were no professional advice, threats or expressing negative emotions. e conclusion of this analysis implies explicit messages relevant for pedagogy, psychology, sports axiology, but also for technology of sports and football respectively.