Caracteriza？？o das fun？？es do coordenador técnico em basquetebol: estudo realizado com os clubes da associa？？o de basquetebol de Aveiro

in basketball, the technical coordinator has a strategic importance in planning, by establishing goals and deciding how to make them real, which involves systematization and anticipation of the future in the whole process. his activity works like a fulcrum, in the competitiveness and sustainable development of the club, allowing organizations to define the long term development philosophy, establishing several goals and positioning the organization in the environment in which it operates. so, the main goal of this study was to characterize the activity developed by the technical coordinators in the clubs of aveiro basketball association, in a dynamic and prospective vision of his intervention while professional manager. the data gathering was carried out through the documentary analysis and a questionnaire applied in interview (n=21). in order to accomplish the register and codification of the data (statistical descriptive analysis and of content) we used software spss. the result of this investigation allowed us to note a great heterogeneity in the clubs, being able up to exist more than a technical coordinator, there are even some cases, which do not present this element because they only have a team. the technical coordinators are mainly males and young, having simultaneously a high and specific degree in basketball. about they？re connection to basketball, only recently they started to practise this specific function, where we find a homogeneous set of tasks, which may vary according to the beliefs and philosophy of the clubs.