The effects of leadership by types of soccer instruction on big data analysis

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to figureout football coaches’ leadership styles. So far, numerous ofcoaches have coached South Korea’s national team. Comparedto other countries, the Korea Republic national teamhas changed coaches relatively often. In particular, owing tothe result-centric Korean culture, if the national team haddeplorable results in a specific match, the head coach wouldbe fired right away. Of course, there were some successfuland popular coaches. However, many other coaches endedup in a failure in the Korean national team. Therefore, theremust be a difference in leadership styles between the successfuland unsuccessful coaches. In this context, it wouldbe critical to find out the traits of the successful coaches’leadership. Using text-mining techniques, the present studyaims to establish different leadership type of football coaches.To this end, we analyzed the South Korean national footballteam coaches’ leadership styles using text-mining techniquesapplied to the analysis of NAVER news. Our results suggestthat successful leaders have important leadership elements,such as communication, trust, and belief.