Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Soccer

Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role. This book provides an unprecedented insight into the world of the contemporary professional football manager. Drawing on original research, it explores the complex challenges and skills of the football manager in an increasingly commercialised industry.

Written by a former professional footballer, the book examines how personal contact, networks and the social mobility of different actors within the industry influence various elements of the manager's role....

The rapid global growth of the sport industry has prompted the need for a more professional and commercial orientation to the management of sport. This book represents the first of its kind to provide a real-world insight into understanding management principles and their application to the sport industry.

Specifically, it offers a critical and applied examination of 'best practice' principles in professional football club management, where clubs are increasing adopting leadership and management principles from outside of their industry. The commercialisation and global reach of...

Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across the world. Throughout its history, football has been a catalyst as much for social cohesion, unity, excitement and integration as it can be for division, exclusion and discrimination. A Sociology of Football in a Global Context examines the historical, political, economic, social and cultural complexities of the game across Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America. It analyses the key developments and sociological debates within football through a topic-based approach...

Football has traditionally been an institution hostile toward sexual minorities. Boys and men in the sport have deployed high levels of homophobia for multiple reasons. However, the ground-breaking research within this book shows that intolerant attitudes toward gay men are increasingly being challenged. Based on unprecedented access to Premier League academies, Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football: Men in the Beautiful Game explores these changing attitudes toward homophobia in football today.

Revealing a range of masculine identities never before empirically...

Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It s hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. Studying Football is the first book designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific perspectives.

Written by a team of leading international football experts, and considering themes of globalization, corporatization and prejudice and discrimination throughout, it introduces key topics in...

Global popular culture and big business have revolutionised the East in a generation. Football, Sport of the masses and now commercial super power, has travelled with this tide of change in the East in its own right.

The development of football as a major participatory sport in Japan, Korea and China makes it an ideal case study for analysis of the complex relationship between sport, culture, society and economy in the East. Football is also a useful entry point for examination of the phenomena of increasing globalisation, and this theme is widely discussed.

This broad...

Nutrition and Football is a FIFA endorsed book which provides the first formal scientific consensus on players' energy use fluid, and optimal nutritional requirements. Including:

• nutrition for pre-season, training, match play and in different climates
• analysis of the energy and metabolic demands of players in different positions
• water and electrolyte requirements
• strategies to balance effects of stress, over training and over playing
• ideal body composition in professional football
• analysis and interventions to counter...

Sport and those who run it have an important duty to ensure the safety and wellbeing of young participants. This text presents the findings of a unique research project into the experiences of a wide range of stakeholders in contemporary youth soccer, exploring crucial issues of child protection, social policy, and the culture and governance of sport. It covers:

• The youth soccer context -- twenty-first century family life, the sports policy background, and the organisation, governance and culture of the English game
• Research findings -- the experiences of...

This book provides a highly readable introduction to the phenomenon of football hooliganism, ideal for students taking courses around this subject as well as those having a professional interest in the subject, such as the police and those responsible for stadium safety and management. For anybody else wanting to learn more about one of society's most intractable problems, this book is the place to start.

Unlike other books on this subject it is not wedded to a single theoretical perspective but is concerned rather to provide a critical overview of football hooliganism, discussing...