Rethinking performance crises in professional soccer: German coaches’ insights into systemic vulnerabilities and escalating dynamics

• Constantin Rausch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: constantin.rausch@kit.edu

  Affiliation Department of Health Education and Sport Psychology, Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1040-8395

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• Julian Fritsch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Sports Psychology, Department of Sports Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

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• Stefan Altmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Social and Health Sciences, Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, TSG ResearchLab gGmbH, Zuzenhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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• Jan Spielmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TSG ResearchLab gGmbH, Zuzenhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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• Lena Steindorf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TSG ResearchLab gGmbH, Zuzenhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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• Darko Jekauc

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Education and Sport Psychology, Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7640-5149

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