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Serving for state and industry by doing nothing but practice and play : Football shamateurism in East Germany, Hungary and Romania
2022
This presentation aims at discussing the opportunities and limitations of football players in East Germany, Hungary and Romania in the period between the end of World War II (1945) and the collapse of the Eastern bloc (1989). Football served as an important propaganda tool for the communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Therefore, the political elites supported football players financially with sinecures in the military, police, and in commercial and industrial companies, as well as by releasing them for training and competitions in their associated clubs. Their status as “shamateurs” granted them privileges in socialist societies over common people but also limited their possibilities to deve…
Lipas data 04/2023
2023
This data includes all sport facilities in Lipas database on 23.4.2023 and basic attribute information about the places. The data is classified and each sport facility has its own Lipas ID. The data is provided as Esri Shapefiles (points, routes and areas). Tämä aineisto sisältää kaikki Lipas-tietokannan liikuntapaikat ja aineistotiedot 23.4.2023. Data on luokiteltu, ja jokaiselle liikuntapaikalle on oma Lipas-ID. Data on tarjolla Esri Shapefile -muodossa (pisteet, reitit ja alueet).
Lipas-data 04/2022
2022
Tämä aineisto sisältää kaikki Lipas-tietokannan liikuntapaikat ja aineistotiedot 29.4.2022. Data on luokiteltu, ja jokaiselle liikuntapaikalle on oma Lipas-ID. Data on tarjolla Esri Shapefile -muodossa (pisteet, reitit ja alueet). This data includes all sport facilities in Lipas database on 29.4.2022 and basic attribute information about the places. The data is classified and each sport facility has its own Lipas ID. The data is provided as Esri Shapefiles (points, routes and areas) in Finnish, Swedish and English.
Lipas-data 10/2022
2022
Tämä aineisto sisältää kaikki Lipas-tietokannan liikuntapaikat ja aineistotiedot 20.10.2022. Data on luokiteltu, ja jokaiselle liikuntapaikalle on oma Lipas-ID. Data on tarjolla Esri Shapefile -muodossa (pisteet, reitit ja alueet). This data includes all sport facilities in Lipas database on 20.10.2022 and basic attribute information about the places. The data is classified and each sport facility has its own Lipas ID. The data is provided as Esri Shapefiles (points, routes and areas) in Finnish, Swedish and English.
Race, ethnicity and ‘African-ness’ in football discourse : perspectives in the age of superdiversity
2018
Globalization, mass mobility, and economic and transcultural flows are changing the experience of diversity in many contemporary societies and communities. This is encapsulated in the notion of ‘superdiversity’, the growing complexity of what ‘diversity’ means, when new combinations of ethnicity and other variables, mobility, belonging, and identification intersect in complex, less predictable ways (see Creese & Blackledge 2010: 550–552; Blommaert & Rampton 2011). Also, the world of association football (soccer, henceforth ‘football’) is radically transformed by such processes of globalization (Giulianotti 1999; Giulianotti & Robertson 2009; Kytölä 2013). The mobility of ‘actors-in-the-fiel…
Global and local interactions in football: Comparing the development paths of Finland and Hungary
2018
The aim of this study is to increase understanding of football’s global and local contexts. More specifically, the development paths of Finnish and Hungarian football are explored and compared in four research articles from different perspectives within a global framework. These viewpoints, in addition to a historical-sociological overview in the article I, cover closely interrelated phenomena observable in the landscape of top-level football: the organization of elite youth football, the professionalization of players and the development of football stadiums. The main research question of the study is as follows: In what way have glocal interactions in men’s football shaped the development…
Quadriceps and hamstring muscle EMG activity during a football match
2012
Roudi Kalema (2012). Quadriceps and hamstring muscle EMG activity during a football match. Department of Biology of Physical, University of Jyvaskyla. Master’s Thesis in Exercise Physiology. 58 pages. Fatigue represents a reduction in the ability of muscle to generate force and in the context of football, it has been often related with injury. Surface electromyography is a valuable technique for evaluating muscle activation and fatigue but it has never been applied during a football match. The development of washable textile electrodes has opened up possibilities to investigate muscular activity in non-laboratory settings, without skin preparation and wires hanging around the body. It has a…
The role of leadership in a national team’s success
2022
Every elite football team wants to maximize their success. Especially in international football, smaller footballing countries need to perform well as underdogs when pursuing qualification to the group stage phase of international tournaments. With limited player options, development of leadership within the team might be one solution to achieve better results. The purpose of this study was to find out team members’ perceptions on what kind of leadership behaviours and leadership structures occur in a men’s football national team participating in the UEFA Euro 2020 and how those are connected to the team’s success. Due to the precise nature of the target sample, we applied a qualitative app…
Adherence to an Injury Prevention Warm-Up Program in Children’s Soccer : A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
2021
This study examined the impact of high adherence to a neuromuscular training (NMT) warm-up on the risk of lower extremity (LE) injuries in children’s soccer. Twenty U11–U14 youth clubs (n = 92 teams, 1409 players) were randomized into intervention (n = 44 teams) and control (n = 48 teams) groups. The intervention group was advised to perform an NMT warm-up 2 to 3 times a week for 20 weeks. Team adherence, injuries, and exposure were registered throughout the follow-up. Primary outcomes were the incidence of soccer-related acute LE injuries and the prevalence of overuse LE injuries. Intervention teams conducted mean 1.7 (SD 1.0) NMT warm-ups weekly through follow-up. The seasonal trend for a…