Thomas M. Leeder is a Lecturer in Sports Coaching & Pedagogy within the School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences at the University of Essex, UK. Thomas primarily teaches and researches across the overlapping areas of coach education and development, coach learning, sport pedagogy, and the sociology of sports coaching. Thomas also has experience of working as both a coach and coach developer across performance and development domains
This book is the first of its kind in providing conceptual and empirical insight into specific football coach education programmes across a range of countries and contexts. The book will be a valuable resource for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in understanding the facilitating and constraining factors in developing football coaches of the future, and will have broader appeal to those studying and working in sports coaching, sports development and sports management. Dr. Jimmy O'Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Sports Development, Management and Coaching. Dept of Sport and Physical Activity, Edge Hill University, UK