Elite sport success in international tournaments is supposed to play an important role shaping national identity. In this article, we explore if and how applies the Iranian context. The current study made use of a Google alert with title ‘Iran Men’s National Football Team’, general content analysis media. analytic focus was on media coverage football team at 2018 FIFA World Cup 2019 AFC Asian C...

BACKGROUND The contribution of sport to overall health-enhancing leisure-time physical activity (HELPA) in adults is not well understood. The aim was to examine this in a national sample of Australians aged 15+ years, and to extend this examination to other ostensibly sport-associated activities. METHODS The 2010 Exercise, Recreation and Sport Survey (ERASS) was conducted by telephone intervi...

The purpose of this study was to enhance understanding of how parents are socialized by their children's organized youth sport participation. Five semistructured focus groups were conducted with youth sport parents (N = 26) and analyzed using qualitative methods based on Strauss and Corbin (1998). Sixty-three underlying themes reflected parents' perceived socialization experiences resulting fro...

The purpose of this research was to find out if there is any relationship between personality type and sport preference; why certain people choose a particular sport, why some people prefer a team sport, and others prefer an individual sport. In this research, athletes from four different sports (three individual and one team sport) and non-athletes took part in the study. The primary interest ...

this study attempts to find if better performance in power play leads a team to victory in a twenty20 match. based on the methodology devised to do so, the study tries to measure the performance of both the teams during power play overs in terms of batting and bowling. the developed measure is called ‘prod’ which is a product of the difference of batting and bowling performance of the teams dur...