Examining the personalities, histories, relationships and individual styles of eight coaches at the top of their profession, this book offers a view that focuses on the coach as a person and the coaching practice as a complex social encounter.

This book is about expert coaches and the ways in which their individual life and career experiences lead to their personal beliefs about effective coaching.

'Sports Coaching Cultures is an easy to read, yet thought-provoking book which provides an open and honest account of the work of eight elite coaches from the world of sport ... [It] is both well written and logically structured.' -European Physical Education Review