Tag: Martin Erikstad

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Den här referentgranskade artikeln av Stig Arve Sæther, Anders Nygaard, Bjørn Tore Johansen och Martin Erikstad undersöker hur unga fotbollspelare upplever att kombinera gymnasiestudier med att spela fotboll på hög nationell nivå. Närmare bestämt studeras hur dessa ungdomar handsklas med det som i internationell forskningslitteratur kallas ”dual career”. Flera faktorer befanns vara av avgörande betydelse för hur framgångsrika ungdomarna var, i skolan och på planen.

This peer-reviewed article by Stig Arve Sæther, Anders Nygaard, Bjørn Tore Johansen and Martin Erikstad examines how young football players experience combining high school studies with playing football at a high national level. More specifically, they study how these young people deal with what in the international research literature is called "dual career". Several factors were found to be crucial to how successful the young people were, in school and on the pitch.