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The Spanish Football Crisis
2008
Abstract This article analyses the economic results of Spanish professional football teams using data collected over the past few years. These data differ substantially from the information presented in the annual reports of the “Liga de Futbol Profesional” (Spanish professional football league), which are obtained from the initial budgets elaborated each season. Special attention is paid to the two most important teams in the Spanish league: Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. The results of this research show that Spanish football has the same problems as those evidenced by the Italian and English football leagues and, therefore, requires similar solutions in order to be able to survive in fort…
Suivi longitudinal du processus émotionnel de footballeurs adolescents en centre de formation
2019
International audience; Ancrée dans la théorie relationnelle, cognitive, motivationnelle des émotions (Lazarus, 1999), cette étude avait pour objectif d’explorer les relations à travers le temps (au cours d’une saison de compétition) entre les évaluations cognitives, les émotions de tous les jours dans un environnement de compétition et les stratégies de régulation émotionnelle. 40 footballeurs adolescents (Mâge = 15.8) d’un centre de formation d’un club professionnel ont participé volontairement à cette étude. Une série d’analyses de modèles linéaires hiérarchiques a été conduite pour neuf temps de mesure pour : (a) examiner les relations entre les évaluations cognitives (menace, perte, dé…
Identification of Defensive Performance Factors in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
2016
The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of defensive play in elite football, to identify variables associated with the direct recovery of ball possession, and to propose a model for predicting the success of defensive transitions. We analyzed 804 transitions in the final stages of the Fedération Internationale Football Association (FIFA) World Cup 2010, and investigated the following variables using univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses: duration of defensive transition, possession loss zone, position of players at the start and end of the defensive transitions, defensive organization, general defensive approach, time of the match, position of defense, zone in which t…
Linear vs. non-linear classification of winners, drawers and losers at FIFA World Cup 2014
2017
Purpose: Tactical analyses to distinguish between football teams that were more or less successful have been conducted up to now only by means of linear methods (like discriminant analysis). Concer...
Discursive approaches of football commentary in french and in romanian between printed press and digital press
2017
Our thesis proposes to analyse a sports-related phenomenon deeply rooted in the social environment – the football – by looking into its linguistic dimension. Our thesis is part of a comparative framework developed at two levels. Thus, a first level aims at a comparison between bilingual corpora made up of commentaries of League 1 football matches (season 2014-2015, in France and in Romania) and of commentaries of football matches of the World Cup in Brazil (2014), in French and in Romanian. These corpora are described by means of the criteria for their selection, collection and constitution. The second level – which constitutes the specificity of our approach – lies in the comparison of the…
Effects of Age and Playing Tactics on the Individual Tactical Behavior in U10 and U12 Elite Spanish Soccer Players
2022
The aim of this paper was to explore the effects of age and playing tactics on the individual tactical behavior and performance in young soccer players. A total of 1247 individual possessions during 16 knockout matches from LaLiga Promises U12 tournament (n = 621) and LaLiga U10 Iscar Cup (n = 626) were analyzed by observational methodology. Multilevel and multivariate logistic regression models were created to explain the interdependent effects of age category and playing tactics on the individual tactical behavior and performance. Youth players performed most of their actions against defensive pressure (72.5%), during offensive support (91.3%) and receiving the ball facing forward (62.6%)…
Detraditionalization, Hyper-consumption and Ambivalence
2015
During the past 20 years, European football has witnessed an intense change process that has radically transformed some of its main structural characteristics. This process is related to the same tendencies that have affected other aspects of social and economic life in western societies, such as the communication technologies revolution, the progressive rationalization of work, the increase in migration, the commodification of human activity, and the development of social and economic globalization processes, to name a few of the most relevant changes. These trends are usually thought to have had a strong influence on the recent evolution of football, giving rise to a redefinition of its c…
Production de footballeurs, réseaux marchands et mobilités professionnelles dans l'économie globale : le cas des joueurs africains en Europe
2008
This doctorate thesis in Human geography deals with the international trade and migration of African football players towards and within Europe through a relational theoretical framework. Through the case study of African footballers, the goal is to gain a better understanding of several ongoing mechanisms occurring in the context of the global economy, such as the new international division of labour, the emergence of global production networks and the segmentation of labour markets. The thesis pleads for taking into account the social embeddedness of the economic action and of social networks as fundamental analytical unity to understand the process of globalization.
Renommer un stade : opportunité économique, défi linguistique
2021
Dans ce contexte, la pratique du naming, changer le nom des stades de foot pour y associer un sponsor, s’avère particulièrement intéressante. Outre un choix économique, nos réflexions invitent aussi à les considérer comme une décision linguistique aux implications sociales non négligeables. Elle mérite ainsi une réflexion particulière pour les entreprises désireuses de sponsoriser des enceintes.
Annual review of the European Football players' labour market
2008
Unique en son genre, "l'étude annuelle du marché du travail des footballeurs", révèle à travers de multiples indicateurs statistiques, les nouvelles tendances en matière de démographie, de formation, de recrutement international et de mobilité des joueurs professionnels dans les principales ligues européennes.