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Marketing analysis of JJK Jyväskylä, a first division football club in Finland

2010

ABSTRACT Master’s Thesis, 78 pages, 3 appendices Sport Marketing 2010 This empirical case study investigated a First Division semi-professional football club in Finland and tried to explore interrelationships between factors that affect the marketing activities of the club. Previous research shows controversial results about how the on-field performance of a team, attendance and marketing opportunities are interconnected, which underpins the relevance of the present work. In addition, emphasis was also put on ascertaining the antecedents and level of fan satisfaction and identification towards the team, as well as discovering the relationship between them. Furthermore, the research was aime…

Clustering ball possession duration according to players’ role in football small-sided games

2022

This study aimed to explore which offensive variables best discriminate the ball possession duration according to players specific role (defenders, midfielders, attackers) during a Gk+3vs3+Gk football small-sided games. Fifteen under-15 players (age 13.2±1.0 years, playing experience 4.2±1.0 years) were grouped according to their positions (team of defenders, n = 5; team of midfielders, n = 7; team of attackers, n = 3). On each testing day (n = 3), each team performed one bout of 5-min against each team in a random order, accounting for a total of nine bouts in the following scenarios: i) defenders vs midfielders; ii) defenders vs attackers; iii) midfielders vs attackers. Based on video, a …

Jalkapalloa ja kuvataidetta : Pentti Veroma (1903-1979)

2015

Pentti Veroma (b. Weckman) was born in Turku, the old capital of Finland in 1903. He has become known to the next generations especially in his home town as a painter. In his youth, he practiced athletics in Paavo Nurmi’s own sport club Turun Urheiluliitto (Turku Sports Union). Later Veroma started to play football in the team of Turun Urheiluliitto. In the early 1920s, the language question was a significant factor in the football, also in Turku. Pentti Veroma was in 1922 one of the founders of Turun Palloseura (Turku Football Club). Later one of the most prominent football clubs in Finland. The team of Turun Palloseura was recruited from the players of the Turun Riento and Turun Urheiluli…

Adapting to Finland through professional football : perceptions of players and coaches

2014

The present study explores how football migrants (foreign professional football / soccer players) perceive the adaptation process in Finland. Globalization and legislation have made it easier for football players to work abroad. The amount of football migrants in Finland is increasing each year. The internationalization of Finnish football requires study. Successful adaptation has a positive outcome on a migrant, which will increase the chances of personal, and thus in the case of football, team success. This thesis is a qualitative study of five football migrants, who are interviewed based on thematic, semi structured face-to-face conversations in Finland. The following research questions …

Pesäpallon lukkarin koulutusmateriaalin kehittäminen : näkökulmia dominoivan pelaajan rooliin

1998

Daily physical activity and physical activity in soccer practice with children

2017

Päivittäisen fyysisen aktiivisuuden määrässä ja intensiteetissä on eroja ihmisten välillä. Suurin osa fyysisestä aktiivisuudesta tapahtuu vapaa-ajalla, lapsilla koulupäivän ulkopuolella. Liikuntasuositukset ohjeistavat riittävästä päivittäisen fyysisen aktiivisuuden määrästä ja laadusta. Yhä useammat lapset eivät saavuta näitä suosituksia ja jako aktiivisiin ja vähemmän aktiivisiin lapsiin on tullut entistä selkeämmäksi. Osallistumista ohjattuun liikuntaan on pidetty yhtenä ratkaisuna lisätä lasten päivittäisen fyysisen aktiivisuuden määrää. Tutkimukset kuitenkin ovat osoittaneet, ettei järjestettyyn liikuntaan osallistuminen kasvata lasten kokonaisaktiivisuutta. Saman päivän aikana tapahtu…

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…

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…