A holistic perspective on career development in UK female soccer players: A negative case analysis

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine career experiences of UK-based female youth soccer players from a holistic perspective with a view to producing a grounded theory of factors contributing to career/talent development and transitions in UK youth female soccer. Methodology: A Grounded Theory methodology (Corbin & Strauss, 2008) was used. Negative case (Denzin, 1989) former female soccer players (N=13), their best friend (N=13), soccer coaches (N=4), and teachers (N=8) took part in semi-structured interviews about factors associated with talent development and career transitions in female youth soccer. Results: Multiple social agents (players, team-mates, peers, teachers, parents and siblings) need to optimally interact to ensure that an optimal talent development and learning environment is created. This will provide a supportive holistic talent development environment, lead to adaptive player-level changes, and a greater chance of successful athletic and dual career development. Conclusions: This study presents a rich understanding of the dual careers of players who did not make it in female soccer. By considering their perspectives alongside of a range of important social agents, we have been able to construct a substantive grounded theory of factors contributing to career/talent development and transitions in UK youth female soccer. As a result, these findings may contribute to policy and practice development in UK female youth soccer

Fixing it for PFA Scotland: building union influence out of a transnational project to tackle match-fixing in football

This article deploys frameworks from the fields of trade union theory and professional football governance theory to gain an understanding of the tactics deployed by the Professional Footballers’ Association, Scotland (PFAS) for collectively representing the interests of its members. The article explores how the union used the advantages gained through participation in a counter match-fixing project managed by FIFPro to establish itself as a member of an array of committees, task groups and panels so that it might become the collective ‘voice’ of players at the institutional level in football. The article commences with a review of the industrial relations landscape of professional football and the ‘peculiarities’ of the labour market that have produced equally unique trade union strategies that seek to individualise rather than collectivise wage bargaining. The implications of such a strategy are felt in the lack of appropriate contemporary theories of trade union power that might act as explanatory frameworks to aid an understanding of the tactics deployed by PFAS. The article proposes a return to a political institutional model of trade union power popularised by Sidney and Beatrice Webb in the late nineteenth-century. An analysis of interview data collected from a small cohort of expert informants shows that PFAS has taken advantage of a new body in Scottish professional football, the integrity forum, to establish itself as a credible and trustworthy voice of players within broader governing structures, while acknowledging that its sphere of influence remains constrained within a system dominated by more established institutions

El Eco de Santiago : diario independiente: Año VI Número 1202 - 1901 Noviembre 14

A Copa do Mundo de Futebol 2014 aconteceu no Brasil no período de 12 de junho a 13 de julho. O documento foi doado por Silvana Vilodre Goellner.Ingresso da partida da Nigéria e Argentina realizada no dia 25 de junho de 2014 durante a Copa do Mundo da FIFA, realizada em Porto Alegre. Contém informações sobre o jogo, o estádio, a localização do assento e o valor do ingresso. Apresenta a logomarca da competição.DoaçãoEducação Física e Esport

La Prensa: Año XI Número 517 - 1947 Junio 02

A Copa do Mundo de Futebol 2014 aconteceu no Brasil no período de 12 de junho a 13 de julho. O ingresso integra o acervo doado por Henrique Licht.Ingresso da partida da Alemanha e Argélia realizada no dia 30 de junho de 2014 durante a Copa do Mundo da FIFA, realizada em Porto Alegre. Contém informações sobre o jogo, o estádio, a localização do assento e o valor do ingresso. Apresenta a logomarca da competição.DoaçãoEducação Física e Esport