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      Dual career experiences of elite coaches enrolled at university level

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          The lifelong education of coaches is one of the priorities of the European Union. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate Italian elite coaches’ motivation to engage in a sport-related academic education, and its demands, barriers, support, and relocation issues in relation to their dual career (DC) path. Sixteen Italian elite coaches (e.g., certified fourth-level national team coaches, senior team coaches) enrolled in a specifically tailored Bachelor’s degree in sports sciences at the University of Rome Foro Italico (Italy) volunteered for this study. A qualitative approach integrating inductive and deductive reasoning, and thematic analysis was applied to participants’ responses to an open-ended item survey. Independently from relocation, student-coaches’ DC perceptions resulted in 15 lower-order themes further organized in 5 high-er-order themes (e.g., Benefit, Challenge, Expectation, Organization, and Support), each related to the contexts (e.g., Personal, Academic, Sport), the DC dimension (e.g., micro, meso, macro, and policy), and the DC push (e.g., facilitating) /pull (e.g., hindering) factors. The elite coaches’ insights emphasize the complexity of the coach lifelong education at university level, and provide valuable information for promoting European and National (e.g., Italian) DC recommendations for elite sportspersons through a cooperation between sport bodies and higher educational institutions.

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                Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
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                PLoS One
                PLoS One
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                PLOS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                13 April 2023
                2023
                : 18
                : 4
                : e0283009
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Human Sciences, Society and Health, University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale, Cassino, FR, Italy
                [2 ] Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Rome, RM, Italy
                [3 ] European Athlete as Student (EAS) Network, Ghaxaq, GXQ, Malta
                [4 ] Department of Sport Sociology, Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
                Università Telematica degli Studi IUL, ITALY
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                ‡ LC, FP, GM, SC, MD and CC also contributed equally to this work.

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                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9643-5532
                Article
                PONE-D-23-04080
                10.1371/journal.pone.0283009
                10101392
                37053185
                cdc58eba-d005-4fbf-9725-043db9e16a54
                © 2023 Fusco et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 12 February 2023
                : 27 February 2023
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                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780, European Commission;
                Award ID: 590400-EPP-1-2017-1-AT-SPO-SCP
                The European Commission supported the AMiD project under the Erasmus+ Sport Programme [number 590400-EPP-1-2017-1-AT-SPO-SCP]. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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