| dc.description.abstract | When I played football actively, I communicated constantly. I was constantly telling my teammates where to position themselves, who to mark and where to play the ball. I first learned to communicate so intensely when I first started playing senior football at 16 years old. It was quite intimidating to train and play with the senior players. The team had high standards and if a big mistake was made, especially if it was because of lack of communication, you would receive a yelling from some of the more experienced players. This made me very aware of how important communication was in a football team. I would start to constantly communicate with my teammates to both get more control and to compensate for my weaker attributes. I carried that with me in every team I played for. So when Geir Jordet introduced nonverbal behaviour in one of his lectures, I first thought: “Well is this not very common among players? I thought this was something every football player does”. However, as I became a coach, I found out that football players actively communicating to each other is not nearly as common as I first thought, especially for younger players. As a coach, I am constantly trying to get my players to communicate more to each other and try to give them solutions to how they can communicate more effectively. As the time went by, I became more and more captivated by how football players could and should communicate to each other. That is one of the reasons why nonverbal behaviour compelled me as much as it did. When Geir said that nonverbal behaviour would be his new passion project, it did not take long before I agreed to write about it in my master’s thesis.
However, finishing this thesis has without a doubt been a very long and challenging 1,5 years of hard work and dedication. There have been a great deal of challenges and setbacks with the code window, getting the analysis done, SPSS etc. Consequently, priorities and some sacrifices had to be made for this to be possible. Finally, after countless hours of doing the analysis as well as countless hours of writing, the thesis is finished and I can somewhat rest and put my student years behind me. | en_US |
