Sandwich Approach: The FNQ FC Heat Soccer Team

Communication is defined as the exchange and flow of information from one person to another (Moen & Kvalsund, 2013). Coaches and instructors have many and varied situations and roles that they are responsible for undertaking when in charge of a group or team and they must be able to communicate effectively to be able to successfully accomplish what they intend to achieve (Moen & Kvalsund, 2013; Aly, 2014). Effective communication is when there is perfect harmony between the message the coach sends and the message the athlete receives (Shimazaki & Kikkawa, 2015). To be able to effectively convey messages to receivers, the coach must use both verbal and nonverbal forms of communication (Moen & Kvalsund, 2013; Shimazaki & Kikkawa, 2015). Non-verbal messages accompany, replace, contradict, complete or accentuate a message that is transmitted through verbal communication (Dobrescu, 2014). In all team sports, including soccer, communication is necessary for team members to be able to perform to the best of their ability. A training session run for the FNQ FC Heat soccer team in preparation for their games in Queensland National Premier League was observed. This session was conducted …show more content…
The sandwich approach comes in the form of a positive statement, followed by specific performance related information ending with a motivational statement (Docheff, 2010). At times the coach would stop the drill if it was not being performed how it was intended, and use the sandwich approach to try and get the players to perform the drill correctly. One example of this from the FNQ Heat coach was stopping the drill and saying, “well done, however I think we can improve on some things. Continually keep your body moving throughout the drill can improve your time to react to the ball coming to you and reduce errors. Keep going and we will get