Essays about: "elite football players"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words elite football players.

  1. 11. Tracking the footballing self: An ethnography of the tensions between analog and digital expertise in a football team’s self-tracking practices

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS)

    Author : Eveliina Parikka; [2019]
    Keywords : tension; expertise; self-tracking; sports; human and non-human; ANT; ethnography;

    Abstract : In the digitally mediated world that we live in, self-tracking and monitoring technologies have been observed to become part of the various realms of our social lives, shaping and even disturbing relations that we take part in. This thesis has sought to explore how tensions emerge between digital tracking technologies, players and other human members of an elite football team and, thus, to address how those tensions are dealt with. READ MORE

  3. 12. In a football bubble: Cultural transition narratives of Swedish elite football players

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

    Author : Ellinor Söderlund; [2018]
    Keywords : Acculturation; career transition; cultural transition in sport; elite football players; migrating athletes; Ackulturation; karriärövergång inom idrott; kulturövergångar inom idrott; elitfotbollsspelare; migrerande idrottare;

    Abstract : The purpose of the study was to investigate cultural transition experience in elite football. More specifically, to explore three Swedish football players experience of their first transition abroad when relocating to play professional football in Europe. READ MORE

  4. 13. Comparison in linear speed and non-reactive agility between male youth football players selected or not selected for the national team.

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap

    Author : Alexander Fridlund; [2017]
    Keywords : Soccer; Football;

    Abstract : Abstract Background: Football is among the world’s most popular sports. It is played all over the world. The sport is an intermittent team sport with demands on technical, tactical, psychological and physical abilities. This study focused on the physical ability and more specifically sprinting and agility. READ MORE

  5. 14. Developing young female football players' physique : Description of a 3 year model - PROJECT97

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap (ID)

    Author : Johanna Sjögren; [2014]
    Keywords : Periodization of training; strength training; young athletes;

    Abstract : Introduction: The present study describes a 3 year model for physical training of young female football players. The aim was to investigate and describe how systematical training based upon The Spinal Engine Theory and periodisation of training over time could increase the players’ physical statues, hence prepare them for increased loading over time associated with elite football. READ MORE

  6. 15. COPING STRATEGIES AMONG ELITE SWEDISH FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN RELATION TO THEIR GOAL ORIENTATION PROFILES

    University essay from Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS)

    Author : Simon Roness; [2011]
    Keywords : Achievement Goal Theory; coping strategies; football players; and goal orientation profiles.; Achivement Goal Theory; coping strategier; fotbollsspelare; målorienteringsprofiler.;

    Abstract : The objectives of this study were to investigate: (1) elite Swedish football players use of coping strategies, (2) their goal orientations, and (3) the relationship between their goal orientation profiles and use of coping strategies. Participants were 83 male elite Swedish football players. READ MORE