Tag: Juan Antonio Simón
Sports Coaching Review, Volume 14, 2025, Issue 1
Sports Coaching Review is an international peer-reviewed medium for the publication of articles related to sports coaching. It aspires to be a major focal point for the publication of sports coaching research throughout the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Joseph Maigrot (1900-1983): a track and field coach who pioneered a French style of coaching” by Serge Vaucelle.
Sport in Society, Volume 25, 2022, Issue 11
Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘No-one wants to be a Kardashian anymore’: female participation in recreational combat sport by Jessica Smart, Richard Chenhall & Louise Keogh.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 39, 2022, Issue 5
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Book Review: Ladies and Lords: A History of Women’s Cricket in Britain by Rafaelle Nicholson, reviewed by Kasey Symons.
“Entertaining reading about football as a vital element in the human comedy”
In Heather L. Dichter’s edited volume Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914 (Univerity Press of Kentucky) an international group of experts analyzes the relationship between soccer and diplomacy. We handed the book to Kristian Gerner, professor of history at Lund University and our expert reviewer in sport and international relations. He found that the book offers readable analyses of soccer as an instrument of diplomacy, but questions the use and understanding of the chosen terminology.
An almost official account of the Video Assistant Referee
The introduction of the Video Assistant Referee, VAR, in international football/soccer, was met with skepticism, to put it mildly. The whole thing is explained, dubiously justified, and even openly propagated in The Use of Video Technologies in Refereeing Football and Other Sports, edited by Manuel Armenteros, Anto J. Benitez & Miguel Ángel Betancor (Routledge). Our reviewer, media and technology researcher Marcio Telles, brings eminent clarity into this entangled issue.
Soccer & Society, Volume 20, 2019, Issue 7–8: Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer
Soccer a.k.a (association) football, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has become a major social phenomenon since the late nineteenth century. Through the social prism of soccer, scholars across the world have tended to understand various aspects of life. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 34, 2017, Issue 7–8
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.
