Spor, insanlığın müşterek değerlerinden biridir. Bir müzik nasıl ki din, dil, ırk, renk, cinsiyet, görüş, statü gibi birçok farklılıklara sahip insanları bir araya getiriyorsa, sporun da insanları her türlü farklılıklarına rağmen bir araya getirdiği tartışmasızdır. İşte spor bu …
High among the mountains and olive groves of Israel's Western Galilee, a group of Palestinian women regularly meet to do something unexpected. They play soccer. In Israel. Banāt Sakhnin is the only Palestinian women's soccer team in the Israeli league. The players, coaches, and …
Soccer officiating can be challenging, exciting, and rewarding. On the other hand, officials can also feel frustrated, abused, and unappreciated. Soccer officials face as much pressure and emotion—sometimes more—than the athletes and coaches. The purpose of this study was to giv…
The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the Oman Football Association (OFA) in selected dimensions, namely, complexity, formalization, centralization, activities to ensure resources, work flow activities, and control activities, identification activities, …
While football is legitimately regarded as the ultimate global game, its significance to Scotland is even more exaggerated, in historical, social and cultural terms. Scots were at the forefront of 'globalising' the sport, teaching the English and other foreigners to play a highl…
The following thesis investigates contemporary issues within the applied physiology of soccer refereeing. 1) Training performance. The impact of a high intensity training regime was examined in a group of elite-level soccer referees. Following a 16-month training period the refe…
Developing countries and the poor within them (i.e., the other) receive scant attention in management and organization studies (MOS). The field, thus, suffers from both ethnocentric and class biases. This research effort seeks to reduce these biases, particularly in the conversa…
After high attendance during the 70's and 80's, there has been a decrease in attendance at soccer matches in Kuwait and neighboring Gulf countries (e.g., Qatar, Bahrain & U.A.E.). An earlier study by Almekaimi (2003) identified factors that might influence soccer games attendanc…
This study is a social and cultural history of soccer in Egypt, from its rise in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present. The major argument of this study is that soccer in Egypt can be examined as part and parcel of the political, social, and economic transfor…
Ten years ago, a high school soccer team comprised mostly of Hispanic players was inches away from claiming championship gold but fell short, and they mainly were defeated by teams consisting primarily of Caucasian players. That high school team was High Point High School, the s…
Prior sport-related injury and the long-term physical and psycho-social consequences associated with injury may contribute to declines in physical activity (PA) and the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of former collegiate athletes (Cowee & Simon, 2019; Filbay, et al., 201…
The present study sought to understand traumatic brain injuries (TBI) impact on executive function (EF) in terms of anticipation amongst individuals with a background in soccer; along with other contributing factors of EF curtailments that inhibit athletes. Within this study 57 …