An ethnographic study of cohesiveness in a college soccer team over a season

Sport Psychologist

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 237-259

  Holt, Nicholas L ^a   Sparkes, Andrew C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0035649746     PISSN: 08884781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.15.3.237     Document Type: Article

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