Tag: football

In this project, we try to preserve a simple but crucial idea: having equal conditions in sports is a human right. With the idea that “sport is a human right,” the project wants to promote social inclusion and help make sure that everyone has equal opportunities in sports, with a particular focus on migrants. Sport is oftentimes cited as the perfect tool for upward mobility, and many young athletes attach their hopes and dreams to sport, particularly football, to ascend socially. Still, migrant athletes continue to suffer from social exclusion.

Rapporten her baserer sig på den til dato største undersøgelse af frivillighed i dansk fodbold. Mere end 11.000 personer har deltaget i undersøgelsen, hvoraf ca. 5.000 er frivillige. Aldrig før i dansk idræt er frivillighed blevet belyst ved så stort et antal respondenter. Det er unikt og giver nu fodbolden og idrætten som helhed ny og vigtig viden, der skal danne grundlag for kommende initiativer med henblik på at styrke frivilligheden i dansk fodbold.

This special issue intends to grasp and analyse the relationship between football and ice hockey, from different angles and perspectives focusing on identity, political ambitions, markets and sponsoring, spectator cultures, city-marketing in relation to sport successes. The basic aim is to detect and investigate differences and similarities in the complex of ‘football versus ice hockey in the European sports landscape’.

Svenska Fotbollförbundet, Elitprojekt herr 2020-23, bjuder in till forskningsseminarium. Seminariet, där forskningsresultat från studier genomförda i svensk fotboll presenteras, arrangeras tillsammans med Institutionen för kost- och idrottsvetenskap vid Göteborgs Universitet. Seminariet är kostnadsfritt och riktar sig till tränare, ledare och fystränare i elitmiljöer samt forskare och studenter med intresse av fotboll. Anmälan krävs. Sista anmälningsdag är den 16 december 2022.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Should I stay (at home) or should I go (to the stadium)? Why will some football supporters not return to the stadium after the COVID-19 pandemic in German Bundesliga? by Uwe Wilkesmann.

This UConn Beyond the Field conversation will focus on examining FIFA in the context of human rights, and particularly the time from Qatar 2022 to the United States 2026. The session will explore the challenges and opportunities for advancing a human rights agenda before, during and after a World Cup. We will address the role and responsibility of FIFA and its obligations to established international human rights. Speaker: Andrea Florence, Director, Sport & Rights Alliance.

It is hard to find, in the champions pantheon of the sport history, a person who has experienced the same public consideration as the one for Diego Armando Maradona. Always on the stage, always drawing everyone’s attention, never an ordinary man. The Forum Editor’s choice from this special issue: A hero’s journey: the monomythical narrative of Diego Maradona’s World Cup appearances by Steph Doehler.