Performance

“When my daughter was in the youth team, she performed poorly in a match due to her injury. Then she was subjected to negative and abusive behavior on the field. She is kicked off the team. I did not witness the event as the match was played in another city. When my daughter called me after the match with great sadness, I learned about the events. Since I could not be with my child, I called the trainer on the phone and said: “My daughter called me and said these things, what’s the matter, how can we solve this problem?”. After this sentence, the coach suddenly became extremely angry. He started insulting me and my daughter. ‘Who do you think you are, calling and bothering me? I’m going to prevent your daughter from playing volleyball, I’ve already kicked her off the team. I will prevent her from entering the university . The coach used threatening statements such as “I will prevent her from joining any team or living where she lives.”

“When I was playing at grassroots, I was selected for the volleyball junior national team. Hearing this, my teammates reacted to me. A teammate of mine, a very close friend of mine, had completely cut off communication with me as soon as she heard this news. she started acting very badly. And she marginalized me in a way that would affect other players because of this success. All of a sudden, no one started talking to me, and the attitudes in the training and the match completely changed. After these events, we did not see her again, neither in the team or in our private life. It was very harsh for a child of that age group to receive such a punitive reaction as a result of a success.”

The mother, with whom we spoke, told the incident that happened to her 11-year-old son. As a result of the football match, there were tense moments in the grandstand against the referee’s decision and the coach’s attitude. The families of the athletes of the teams had a fight with each other due to the result of the match, they made physical contact such as pushing and made bad statements.

A coach and his friend who is responsible from athletes aged between 10-12 showed a negative approach to his athlete by shouting, gestures, mimics and movements in public during the match due to poor sports performance.

“Our coach came to our locker room after a game we lost. He lifted me and two of my friends to their feet, pulling on our jerseys and saying, “You see, these friends were running and sweating the whole game. This sweat is their labor. You didn’t do anything, you just stared blankly. Be ashamed of yourself. You have to be like these friends, or you will be nothing. You are nothing.”

A female handball player receives a harsh warning from her trainer during training. Despite the low performance of the whole team in the training, the coach only warns this female athlete and scolds her by keeping her separate from her teammates. The coach, who is more tolerant when someone else makes the same mistake, causes the athlete to have self-confidence problems. This female athlete, who has been doing this sport for many years, has been victimized by this incident and similar events, so she moves away from handball and quits the sport. The coach, who constantly criticizes this female athlete’s performance negatively, prefers to ignore the athlete’s positive behavior.