From where I speak? I’m professor at School of Applied Sciences of University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil. In my country, since 1998, it’s necessary to have Physical Education degree to be a coach (there are exceptions, like in soccer and martial arts). However, we have just 2 undergraduate courses focused on coach education (Sport Sciences schools), and I work in one of them. I also have graduate students (master and PhD), who are coaches or coach developers. Besides the a

Sports coaching is like everything else in life, always changing and evolving. To progress like everyone else, sport coaches are continually searching for ways to improve, to optimize their athlete’s performance. I really think this is the same for the coach developer! Today’s athlete’s is a fine-tuned machine benefitting from modern training, expert nutrition and state of the art rehabilitation services. Current technology allows coaches to monitor many aspects of the traini