Qatari Female Footballers

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-92
Author(s):  
Charlotte Lysa
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Football Players ◽  
National Team ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Women's Football

Female Qatari footballers are being encouraged by government policies to pursue sports careers in accordance with pressure from international organizations. At the same time, they are subject to a conservative in which it is largely unacceptable for women to play football. This tension has driven many female football players in Qatar to create a safe space for their activities through forming university teams. Using interviews with young women engaged in football activities, this chapter shows that these safe spaces do not carry the same negative connotations of masculinity as the official clubs and national team do – which subsequently enables women to challenge the perception that it is impossible for them to play football, while preserving their femininity and adhering to societal moral codes at the same time. By establishing women’s football as a university activity rather than something that conflicts with their academic priorities, they are able to play football without getting into conflicts with their families. These women seek the freedom to pursue their objectives and shape their own lives.

Safe Spaces: Gay-Straight Alliances in High School

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Fetner ◽  
Athena Elafros ◽  
Sandra Bortolin ◽  
Coralee Drechsler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
The People

In activists' circles as in sociology, the concept "safe space" has beenapplied to all sorts of programs, organizations, and practices. However,few studies have specified clearly what safe spaces are and how theysupport the people who occupy them. In this paper, we examine one sociallocation typically understood to be a safe space: gay-straight alliancegroups in high schools. Using qualitative interviews with young adults inthe United States and Canada who have participated in gay-straightalliances, we examine the experiences of safe spaces in these groups. Weunpack this complex concept to consider some of the dimensions along whichsafe spaces might vary. Participants identified several types of safespace, and from their observations we derive three inter-related dimensionsof safe space: social context, membership and activity.

A comparison of the balance skills, personality, and temperament traits between elite sports athletes and football players

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bożena Wojciechowska-Maszkowska ◽  
Dorota Borzucka ◽  
Aleksandra Rogowska
Keyword(s):  
Postural Balance ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Control Sample ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Mean Velocity ◽  
National Team ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
Temperament Traits

Abstract Background: Although research on balance skills and personality were explored in the field of sports science, little is known about the relationship between the two phenomena. This study aims to investigate the association of postural balance with traits of personality and temperament. The differences between elite athletes, football players, and the control sample will also be examined. Methods: Participants in the case-control study were 73 people, aged between 16 and 30 years old (M = 21.29, SD = 2.47), including 59% of men. Three samples of participants consisted of Elite Athletes (AE, n = 17, 23.29%) of the Polish National Team; Football Players (FP, n = 32, 43.84%); and Control Sample (CS, n = 24, 32.88%). Postural control was assessed on a force platform (Type 9286AA, Kistler Instrument AG, Winterthur, Switzerland) with a sampling frequency of 100 Hz. The center of pressure (COP) parameters was measured during 20 seconds in both conditions eye open, and eye closed, in both directions anterior-posterior (AP) and medial-lateral (ML). The COP parameters include standard deviation (SD), mean range (RA), mean velocity (MV), and entropy (SE). The NEO-FFI questionnaire was used to assess Big-Five personality traits, whereas the FCB-TI was used to measure temperament traits. Results: One-way ANOVA revealed that the EA and CS groups were more stable in ML direction than the FP group. In the AP direction, the athletes from the EA group were more stable than the CS group. Nor personality, neither temperament did not differentiate the three groups of participants, beside agreeableness, which was significantly lower in both EA and FP groups. Openness to experiences is positively associated with COP parameters, as it was shown in regression analysis. All COP parameters can explain for about 40% of openness variability. Conclusions: The results of this study showed that EA and CS have better stability than footballers in both ML and AP direction. Openness seems to be related to postural balance skills.

Young Women’s Sex Talk Online: Roles of Anonymity, Social Closeness, and Cultural Background on Perceived Appropriateness and Behavioral Intention

2020 ◽  
pp. 036168432097292
Author(s):  
Emiko Taniguchi ◽  
Hye Eun Lee ◽  
Xiaowen Guan
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Undergraduate Women ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Social Closeness ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Sex Talk

In this study, we examined the roles of anonymity and social closeness in predicting young women’s perceptions of “sex talk” (i.e., communication about sexual interests, enjoyment, and experiences) and intentions to post such content in cyberspace. We also examined cultural differences among Asian, Latina, and European Americans. A total of 466 undergraduate women from the three cultural groups participated in the online experiment. Participants were randomly assigned to either a low anonymity condition (i.e., Facebook) or a high anonymity condition (i.e., an anonymous online forum) where they were exposed to identical sex talk stimuli. The main findings showed that greater anonymity increased both the level of perceived appropriateness of sex talk posted by other female users and participants’ intentions to post sex talk online themselves. Compared to European American women, Asian and Latina Americans reported greater intentions to post sex talk online and perceived other female users’ sex talk posts as more appropriate. The results of this study prompt educators and practitioners to help young women strategically manage their impressions of sex talk online while being sensitive to women’s cultural backgrounds. They also suggest the need for further support from practitioners, educators, and parents to construct safe spaces for young women to engage open conversations about sexual matters in the digital space.

Churches and violence in north-eastern Guatemala: Between safe space and lions’ pit

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-451
Author(s):  
Saskia Simon
Keyword(s):  
Specific Role ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Living Together

Based on an ethnographic research led in north-eastern Guatemala between 2011 and 2013, this article problematizes the idea usually advanced in sociology of religions that churches represent safe spaces allowing the reconstruction of social fabric in violent contexts. Analyzing collective mechanisms of ‘living together’ in this region, the author shows the specific role of the Catholic and Evangelical Churches as spaces where struggles have taken place, but where they nevertheless represent safe spaces for expression.

scholarly journals Overuse Injuries in Youth Football Players

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (11_suppl3) ◽  
pp. 2325967114S0022
Author(s):  
Müjdat Enginsu ◽  
Recep Lokmaoğlu ◽  
Coşkun Hayırlıoğlu ◽  
Şafak Selimoğlu ◽  
Hüseyin Efendioğlu
Keyword(s):  
High Intensity ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Mineral Density ◽  
Avulsion Fractures ◽  
National Team ◽  
High Intensity Training ◽  
Youth Football ◽  
Team Selection ◽  
Intensity Training

Objectives: Youth football players encounter many injuries especially during the school period when they are trying to make scool and football together. Due to consistent team selection in competetion, school matches, academy leaque matches and age group national team matches, as a result of high intensity training at a young age they are extremely overloaded. Methods: 145 football players of 13-19 age group playing in the academy leaque of Bursaspor have been observed for 10 months (Augost 2013-May 2014) ,injuries caused by overuse and that require at least 2 days break from sports activities. Results: Were determined on 45 football players while lower extremities upper group (hamstring, quadriceps)muscles constitued the majority of the injuries; In the adductor region were also seen often. The most striking finding is epiphyses avulsion fractures on the 3 players. Conclusion: There are many risk factors causing injuries releated to overuse in youth athletes.Such as previous injuries,anatomic malalignment,extreme flexibility,loss of bone mineral density,overload to physes,high intensity training,when rest is not adequate, and not appropriate recovery.Limitation of sports specific repetatif movements(eg,pitching limits);scheduled rest periods and recovery time;such modifications to be individualized based upon the sport and the athlete's age,growt rate,readiness;optimal preparation of the preseason conditioning program;well neuromusculer training before workout;exact monitoring of the training and determination of the occasions on which injuries occur are important in preventing such injuries.

scholarly journals Board Games as Interview Tools: Creating a Safe Space for Unaccompanied Refugee Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamária Neag
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Research Tools

Since the emergence of the new sociology of childhood in the late 1980s, there has been an increasing expectation to engage children actively and to take their views seriously throughout the research process. This is even more important when it comes to unaccompanied refugee children, whose voice is seldom heard. In this article the author builds upon her project of exploring unaccompanied refugee children’s lived media experiences and argues that—in order to have meaningful results and to create safe spaces for those who need it most—we need to search beyond traditional research tools. Specifically, she proposes to bring into research the concept of “play”. The article presents the use of bespoke, artisanal board games in cross-national interview settings with unaccompanied refugee children. It is argued that these creative tools can help in collecting diverse and rich data that can successfully complement traditional research methods

scholarly journals Caracterización y asociación del rendimiento físico en futbolistas Chilenos con parálisis cerebral (Characterization and association of the physical performance of Chilean football players with cerebral palsy)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
Matías Henríquez ◽  
Felipe Herrera ◽  
Fernando Muñoz ◽  
Cristian Luarte Rocha ◽  
Mónica Fernández ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Physical Performance ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Sports Performance ◽  
Countermovement Jump ◽  
Squat Jump ◽  
Performance Variables ◽  
National Team ◽  
Jump Ability ◽  
The Relationship

  Objetivo: el objetivo de este estudio fue: i) Caracterizar el perfil del rendimiento físico de los futbolistas con parálisis cerebral (PC) de la selección Chilena de fútbol 7 acorde a su clasificación deportiva (CD) y posición de juego; ii) Analizar la relación entre las variables de rendimiento físico con la CD. Método: Participaron 19 jugadores varones con PC pertenecientes a la selección Chilena de fútbol 7 agrupados según CD (FT1, FT2, FT3) y posición de juego. Se realizaron mediciones de agilidad (AG), capacidad de realizar sprint repetido (RSA), distancia recorrida en la prueba Yo-Yo (D), capacidad de salto con las pruebas Squat Jump (SJ) y Countermovement Jump (CMJ). Resultados: Se encontraron diferencias significativas de acuerdo a las CD donde los jugadores FT3 lograron un mayor rendimiento en las pruebas de AG y D comparado con FT2 y FT1, no así para RSA donde solo fue superior a FT1. Mediocampistas lograron un mayor rendimiento con un tamaño del efecto grande en todas las variables en comparación a las posiciones de defensa y delantero. Se observaron relaciones fuertes y muy fuertes entre todas las variables de rendimiento físico, así también para las relaciones con la CD a excepción de SJ y CMJ. Conclusión: Se deben considerar las características específicas de cada CD de los jugadores con PC en conjunto con la posición de juego y la táctica del equipo en sí misma, conjugando una serie de factores que busquen lograr los más altos niveles de rendimiento físico y deportivo. Abstract. Objective: The aims of this study were: i) Characterize the physical performance profile of cerebral palsy (CP) football players of the Chilean national team of football 7 a-Side according to the sport classification (SC) and playing position; ii) Analyze the relationship between physical performance variables and the SC. Method: 19 male football players with CP belonging to the Chilean national team of football 7 a-Side participated and were grouped according to SC (FT2; FT2; FT3) and playing position. Measurements of Agility (AG), repeated sprint ability (RSA), the covered distance in the Yo-Yo test (D), jump ability in Squat Jump (SJ), and Countermovement Jump (CMJ) test were made. Results: Significant differences were found according to SC, where FT3 players achieved higher performance in AG and D tests compared to FT2 and FT1, not for RSA, which was only higher than FT1. Midfielder achieved a higher performance with a large effect size in all variables compared with defender and forward positions. Strong and very strong relationships were observed between all the physical performance variables, as well as for relationships with SC except for SJ and CMJ. Conclusion: The specific characteristics of each SC of CP players must be considered in conjunction with the playing position and the team's tactics, combining a series of factors that seek to achieve the highest levels of physical and sports performance.

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