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The purpose of this research is to define and develop the criteria for the selection of the head coach of Iran’s national football team and to determine the extent to which such criteria are important. The study consisted of 627 participants who included 379 coaches, 210 players and 38 managers. The research method of this study was of descriptive-survey type and the research tool was a researcher made questionnaire. The content and face validity of the questionnaire was examined and reliability with Cronbach's alpha coefficients at (0.87) were estimated.
The Results showed that the selection criteria of the head coach of Iran’s football team from the participants’ point of view include: 1. Technical skills, 2. Personality characteristics, 3. Communication and Social skills, 4. Managerial skills, 5. Personal characteristics, 6. Psychological skills, 7. Coaching vision, 8. Background as coach, 9. Background as football player.
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