Compare and contrast different roles, responsibilities and skills in sport

Football and golf

These two sports are very different in their roles, responsibilities and skills, a main reason for this is that one is a team sport and the other is an individual sport. In football the coach may need to raise his voice at times and have a go at the team not just an individual as it is a team sport, whereas in golf if a player does a bad shot the coach will be able to have a quiet word with them and show the reason why they think the shot went wrong. Another difference in these sports is motivation. Footballers need lots of this to get them ready for the game and most of the time when they feel this they play a lot better but in golf motivation is not too necessary because it is more technical but obviously both footballers and golfers will have lots of motivation to play to the best of their ability. Another different could maybe be a friend, because the football coach won’t be able to get become too good a friend with his players because when he’s picking the team sometimes it might not come down to ability it may come down to that that’s his friend so he’s playing. Where as in golf the coach is only working with one player so the friendlier they are the better.

One similarity of these sports is that the coach will always give you what he thinks is the right advice and what they think will make you a better player in the long run. Also feedback, after a game both coaches will like to tell you how they think you have played and what went well and what didn’t go so well. Both sets of coaches will be role models towards the players because they maybe will have been there and done it all before, and these are the things the players need to take onboard to become a better player.