Recently, 12 European football clubs launched the idea of creating Super League. After massive protests from fans, Union Football Associations, politicians, coaches, and players, initiative was stopped. In this commentary, authors reflect on some problems facing argue that creation a League is not solution to challenges. However, does face require actions, thus provide suggestions progress.

This project examines the relationship between football, the media and the constitution and reconstitution of cultural identities within Glasgow and Liverpool. It explores the extent to which a range of contemporary religious, political and national identities can be understood by focusing on the role that football and the support for particular clubs, play in their formation. Throughout, there...

Abstract Background Although outdoor smoke-free policies (SFPs) at sports clubs represent an important new area of tobacco control, the majority are not smoke-free. This study aims to assess diffusion patterns SFPs in Netherlands, which may inform national strategies aimed making all Methods Using a retrospective, registry-based design, inventory was made football, field hockey, tennis, and kor...

Spain is one of the largest and most successful powers in international youth football, but this success has not extended to the national team. This lack of continued success seems to indicate a loss of potential. The relative age effect has been detected in football in many countries. Understanding the extent of this bias in the youth teams of Spanish elite clubs may help to improve selection ...

The paper focuses on women’s soccer, one of the fastest growing sports in Australia, and in particular on the aspect of the ethnic background of Adelaide-based clubs. The paper aims to illustrate the shift in ethnic image that has occurred in recent years amongst Adelaide clubs, formerly associated with the Italian community, and to investigate the reason(s) behind this shift. Methods include i...

The Sporting Director is one strategy football clubs have adopted to protect their financial sustainability. Little no research has been undertaken on the role in football. This article draws upon a qualitative methodology examine perceptions and practices related its potential implications football’s growing global business. Semi-structured interviews were with senior stakeholders (N = 21). da...

T study’s purpose was to investigate how junior football players representing a professional club experienced stressors according to there given playing time. Participants (N43) represented 3 football clubs (mean 17.4 yrs). The results showed that the players playing all matches reported a lower level of stress related to performance and future stress compared to the players playing few matches...

This article draws on 3,500 responses from fans and professionals involved in association football (soccer) to an anonymous online survey posted from June 2010 to October 2010 regarding their views towards gay footballers. The overall findings are that, contrary to assumptions of homophobia, there is evidence of rapidly decreasing homophobia within the culture of football fandom. The results ad...