Contribution to the Identification of the Professional Skills Profile for Coaches in the Algerian Sport Judo System

This study was designed to determine The professional skills of Coaches which are identifiedand judged on a large number of factors (Belkadi, Benbernou, & Gleyses, 2014). The purpose of thisarticle is to describe the views of the four different professionals actors on coach skills; athletes,coaches, leaders and experts from the Algerian judo sport system, all the actors of that system have responded to the same series of questions regarding coaches skills. Across the five groups ofspecific professional skills, the views expressed are more similar than dissimilar, with eachprofessional emphasizing a different item of the coaches‘ skills.The information presented aligns both with and shows that, coaches and athletes have thesame representations of technical and teaching skills. However, a discrepancy of representationsregarding the organizational and managerial skills. Stakeholder views are compared to thecoaching science literature and recommendations to develop a professional skills repository of thejudo coach are provided.