Obstacles Facing the Iranian Basketball Academy
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Annals of Applied Sport Science, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 41-50, Autumn 2016 DOI: 10.18869/acadpub.aassjournal.4.3.41 Original Article www.aassjournal.com www.AESAsport.com ISSN (Online): 2322 – 4479 Received: 19/01/2016 ISSN (Print): 2476–4981 Accepted: 01/04/2016 Obstacles Facing the Iranian Basketball Academy 1 * 2 1 3 Hamta Hadian , Mohamad Reza Boroumand, Saeed Amirnejad, Masoud Najafi 1Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Shomal University, Amol, Iran. 2Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. 3Department of Sport Sciences, Ayatollah Amoli Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran. ABSTRACT This study, which is a strategic study with a mixed research approach aimed to identify obstacles facing the academies of Iranian Basketball Federation. The population comprises board of directors and committees responsible for Education and Talent Spotting Association, academy administrators, physical education instructors, qualified experts, professors, coaches, referees and heads of delegations who were asked via interviews and questionnaire (exploratory manner) to state internal and external obstacles facing basketball academies in following 8 components in order of importance utilizing the Delphi method: management and planning, training, human resources, financial resources, talent spotting, scientific and research and information technology, venues and infrastructures. Items were identified in 34 external and 49 internal factors. For weighting and prioritizing of items, the questionnaire was completed by 27 subjects employing AHP method based on pairwise comparisons. SPSS software version18 was utilized for descriptive statistics while AHP method in Expert Choice software was utilized for inferential statistics. At the end, a total of 11 executive strategies were proposed for removing the obstacles. KEY WORDS: Basketball, Academy, Strategic Planning, AHP. INTRODUCTION Downloaded from aassjournal.com at 7:20 +0330 on Saturday September 25th 2021 Evaluating the methods and progress of In the United States of America, tournaments are championship and professional sports in held professionally and under special rules as developed countries is indicative of the fact that well as the supervision of the American the elite athletes training approach was focused Basketball Association (NBA). In Iran, the on the attention and investment in the basic level basketball federation was first founded by and development of specialized academies (1). Fereydoun Sharif-zadeh, Alborz high school Among the different sport fields, basketball is sport teacher between 1935 and 1936. Moreover, one of the important, beautiful and popular it was developed so fast in Iran that the Iranian sports that has a special place in world national basketball team made its debut at the Championships and Olympics (2). Today, London Olympics in 1948. Today, basketball basketball tournaments are held in an amateur tournaments are held in all categories of schools way on different occasions at World championships, national championships, League Championships, Olympics, Student Championship clubs and students' Championships and international tournaments. championships among men, women, youth, *. Corresponding Author: Hamta Hadian E-mail: [email protected] 42 Obstacles of the Basketball Academy adolescents (mini-basketball) (3). The Iranian 7 components were identified in designing the basketball academies, the number of which is strategy of the Boating and Water Skiing increasing day by day, started functioning Federation (7). Moreover, the researchers stated officially for the first time by Mahram Co. in the following obstacles in the design and 1999 and then by Tehran Etihad Club in 2011. development processes of the comprehensive These centers as academic and professional system of wrestling in Iran: nepotism, better training institutions, seek to discover, train and financial incentives in other fields, reduced evolve sport talents. In addition, their significant interest of young people, mass media failure to activities were effective on the professional and address the issue, traditional management, scientific development of basketball in light of scientific and systematic programs and appropriate sport management and planning. experienced coaches in other countries (8). Given the importance of the field in the world, The most important internal and external the Iranian basketball more than ever needs more obstacles in the strategic talent spotting program attention for the education, scientific and of the Iranian Track and Field Federation were academic teaching of basketball to coaches and the Managers' and mass media's focus on result- new basketball learners employing modern oriented approach and low contribution level of technology and facilities and organized the track and field clubs in nurturing the talents, management measures to promote its position in respectively (9). In a research, carried out on global arenas. Close competition levels between boys football schools in Iran's cosmopolitan city countries in these events, complexities and of Tabriz, parents’ low awareness of schools’ specific equations governing these competitions objectives, lack of expertise and work have created special conditions for countries in experience of some football school staff were this process (4). It is reported in results obtained identified as the most important external and from studies on the comprehensive program of internal obstacles (10). In addition, Hamilton Iran's sport(s) that there is only one coach for Basketball Academy in Australia, defined its every 700 people on average. This ratio is much strategic objectives based on the following five lower in developed countries. For instance, there components in its strategic Plan (2009-20012): is one coach for every 11 and 9 people in Growth: An increase in the number of America and Canada, respectively. Thus, there is participants and devising strategies to keep them; an explicit and institutionalized shortcoming in Marketing and communications: Increasing the number of Iranian coach. A large number of the awareness level of all committees on the Iranian coaches are not active and only a total of importance and value of all marketing and 35% are actively working. Therefore, the communications; situation is very worrying regarding the number Facilities and Places: Creating a place as a of sports coaches in the country. Furthermore, home for basketball learners; there are 1062 students per one sport teacher in Organizational development: Enabling and Downloaded from aassjournal.com at 7:20 +0330 on Saturday September 25th 2021 Iran. The study of this ratio and (also) its empowering the academy; comparison with (that of) other countries reveals Talent spotting and discovery of brilliant (a) shortage in number of sports teachers and talents: Spotting talents and helping basketball instructors. For instance, there is one sport learners achieve the highest level (11). teacher for every 28 students in America (5). Moreover, in the strategic program of the Training and evolving different age groups Iranian beach volleyball, the most significant require the implementation of a detailed and internal obstacles were described as follows: lack logical program in all educational dimensions of human resources, lack of financial resources, along with the respective components. To lack of articles, lack of adequate land for the strengthen its basic sport and improve sports beach volleyball, lack of equipment and facilities, facilities in primary schools, the UK considered lack of attention to volleyball at schools, lack of a new budget plan in 2014, a portion of which inter-province competitions. Furthermore, included aid package worth 30,000 pounds for machine life, the rising cost of equipment, lack of schools (6). In line with the research, a total of adequate funding, lack of advertisements, lack of 56 internal obstacles and 39 external obstacles in suitable talent spotting programs, nepotism Hadian, H., et al. (2016). Ann Appl Sport Sci, 4(3): 41-50. Obstacles of the Basketball Academy 43 among the board members were said to be among conducting purposeful and guided interview. In the external obstacles facing Iranian volleyball the qualitative phase, semi-structured and (12). In a study carried out in Romania titled conceptual interviews were utilized. To achieve ''management and marketing in basic basketball this, open-ended questionnaires were given to the clubs'', the researcher proposed a model for basketball experts (in an exploratory manner) so recruitment and training of children at private that they can include any obstacle in indoor and basketball academies. The results in 12 centers outdoor settings of basketball academies in the revealed that all of them were planned non-profit eight components in separate questionnaires organizations, which compete in the competitions based on importance employing the Delphi organized by the Federation and almost half of method. The final questionnaire attained them, which were dependent on competitions in theoretical saturation with 25 experts. The validity different age groups had good productivity in of the questionnaires was confirmed according to their work (13). Given the importance of the experts. AHP method was employed in the academic teaching of basic basketball, the quantitative phase, which was carried out with the executive of which are basketball academies,