ABSTRACT
The latest wave of sport globalization has increased and accelerated all sorts of transnational exchanges between institutions and peoples. Coaching is one area in which the transnational character of sport has become evident. This is the case not only at national competition but at the international level as well. Whereas national teams have traditionally been led by coaches of the same nationality, globalized national sport officials have recently been keen on hiring foreign coaches to lead their teams. For example, New Zealander Robbie Deans coaches the Australian men’s rugby union team and Italian Fabio Capello coaches England’s men’s football side. In the 2008 Olympics, Argentine Raúl Lozano, Japanese Masayo Imura, and Frenchmen José Ruiz managed Poland’s men’s volleyball, China’s women’s synchronized swimming, and Mali’s women’s basketball teams, respectively.
