Abstract
ABSTRACT Coach–athlete relationships (CARs) and using technologies are centrally important to coaching. Technology improves the information coaches use to advance their athletes and, by extension, promotes feedback aimed to boost development and performance. Yet on deeper examination, technology may also impede CARs because of the excessive levels of monitoring and control. Using a post-structural stance to re-imagine coaching practices, we flipped technology, not to control athletes but to give them a voice. We trialled our technological intervention with one soccer team and interviewed the coach and a sample of players about their experiences using the intervention. Our Foucauldian analysis revealed significant changes in the CARs with the potential to boost communication, collaboration, reflection, learning, and development.
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