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Hungary:Filling the Gaps in the Strategic State Sector
2017
The aim of this article is to introduce the evolution of the private sport sector in Hungary. First, taking a historical viewpoint into account, the emergence of the private sport sector will be sketched from the 1800s to date. It is reasonable to say that with some exceptional periods such as the state socialist era, the private sport sector in Hungary has always been present, but its scope and forms of function have been adapted to the current social, political, and economic environments. Second, statistical data will be presented to show the structure and volume of the private sport sector using data from 2013. Third, the ‘development path’ of sport acts, which reflects the professionali…
Sport Clubs in Spain
2015
Spain is a decentralised state with an approximate population of 47.1 million. It is a European Union member state since 1986 and the 13th largest economy in the world. According to the latest survey of sporting habits conducted in Spain (2010), 19 % of people over the age of 15 engage in some kind of sport or physical activity through a sports club or association. The corresponding figures in previous surveys were 24 % in 2005 and 25 % in 2000. Although the number of sports clubs in Spain has increased over the last 10 years, there has been an even greater rise in the number of people taking up recreational sport or physical activity without being formally linked to any sports federation o…
“Are They Singing the National Anthem?” : Football Followers’ Responses to the Ethnic Diversification of Finland Men’s National Football Team
2017
Fair play w życiu wierzącego sportowca na przykładzie Grzegorza Jakosza
2017
W swoim społecznym nauczaniu papież Jan Paweł II dokonał niejako teologicznej nobilitacji sportu, ukazując jego wartość religijną i kulturotwórczą. Stąd każdy angażujący się w tę aktywność ludzkiego postępowania za oczywistość powinien przyjąć odgórne zasady rywalizacji i gry fair play, które stanowią ważny czynnik w procesie wszechstronnego doskonalenia człowieka. W obecnej dobie pojawia się wielu świadków takiego postępowania pośród ludzi sportu. Jednym z nich jest zawodowy piłkarz i trener, Grzegorz Jakosz, który dzieli się swoimi spostrzeżeniami w tym temacie. Samemu stając się promotorem gry fair play, zwraca uwagę na jej nieodzowny aspekt w procesie wychowania młodego pokolenia.
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…
Non-elite conceptions of Europe: Europe as reference frame in English football fan discussions
2020
International audience; Discursive approaches to Europe usually focus on elite discourses and target a narrow political understanding of Europe. Against the backdrop of rising Euroscepticism and the known elite-mass divide on issues of European identity, it seems important to shift the focus toward non-elite discourses on Europe. Given that club football is largely Europeanised (player markets, continent-wide club competitions and broadcasting of matches), we analyse how fans of the English Premier League club Manchester United discursively construct ‘Europe’ in relation to their sport. Our main research question aims at identifying how identifications of fans have been unconsciously Europe…
HOW DO FOOTBALLERS COPE WITH STRESS?
2018
Background: Stress is an inseparable attribute of sports activities. The answer to the question of how to effectively cope with stress in a competition is one of the most important challenges of sportspsychology. The aim of this research is to analyze the stress-management strategies used by football players. Methods:Participants in the study were 32 students of physical education specializing in football and 39 students of management, aged between 19 and 27 years (M = 21.41, SD = 1.76), including 24 women (34% of all respondents). Coping strategies were assessed through application of the multi-dimensional COPE inventory. Results: In comparison with the sample of management students, the g…
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Soccer: Web of Science Bibliometric Analysis
2020
According to the existing literature, there is growing interest in the sports industry by individuals involved in entrepreneurship and innovation. However, no bibliometric analyses on the importance of and interest that these individuals have in the football industry have been conducted. A total of 220 articles and reviews retrieved from Thomson Reuters Web of Science (Core Collection&trade
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…
"You'll never walk alone" : formation of sense of community through language on the subreddit r/LiverpoolFC
2017
Internetin merkitys arjessa on kasvanut huomattavasti suurelle osalle maapallon ihmisiä viime vuosikymmeninä. Verkossa on lukemattomia sivustoja, joista useaa voisi kutsua internetyhteisöksi. Yksi suosituista sivustoista on reddit, joka koostuu erilaisista yhteisöistä eli aliredditeista. Aliredditit rakentuvat yleensä kiinnostuksenkohteiden tai ajankohtaisten aiheiden ympärille, ja niiden sisällön tuottamisen ja ylläpidon toteuttavat sivuston käyttäjät. Tutkielmani tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten redditin käyttäjät luovat yhteisöllisyyden tunnetta kielellisin keinoin aliredditeissa. Tutkimukseni kohteena on alireddit r/LiverpoolFC, joka on suunnattu Liverpoolin jalkapallojoukkueen faneill…