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Exploring human capital: discrimination factors and group-specific performance in the football industry [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of the study is to investigate whether discrimination factors exist within professional football clubs, concerning the management of their human capital, by analysing the correlation between the footballers’ wages and their performance.
Lardo, Alessandra, Lombardi, Rosa, Ricci, Federica, Trequattrini, Raffaele   +3 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Gender Differences in Technical-Tactical Behaviour of la Liga Spanish Football Teams [PDF]

, 2020
[Abstract] The aim of this study was to identify differences in technical-tactical behaviour between the men and women first division football teams of the Spanish league, to this end 68 matches corresponding to 2016/17 season were analysed.
Ardá Suárez, Antonio, Casal Sanjurjo, Claudio Alberto, Losada, J.L., Maneiro, Rubén   +3 more
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A school-based physical activity intervention in primary school: effects on physical activity, sleep, aerobic fitness, and motor competence

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveThe “Super Quinas” project evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention program to improve physical activity, aerobic fitness, sleep, and motor competence on children in primary school.MethodsThe experimental group (n = 19) enrolled in a 12 ...
Júlio A. Costa, Susana Vale, Susana Vale, Rita Cordovil, Rita Cordovil, Luís P. Rodrigues, Vasco Cardoso, Rui Proença, Manuel Costa, Carlos Neto, João Brito, José Guilherme, José Guilherme, André Seabra   +13 more
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The Anthropology of Football

Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, 2014
Anthropological interest in football has been on the rise since the beginning of the century, which can be attested to by the rising number of studies, papers, collective publications and scientific conferences on the topic. Seeing as anthropology is no longer the study of the culturally bizarre and exotic, it is clear that the first anthropological ...
Ivan Kovačević, Bojan Žikić
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Football: a counterpoint to the procession of pain on the Western Front, 1914-1918? [PDF]

, 2014
In this article, three artworks of the First World War containing images of recreational football are analysed. These three images, In the Wings of the Theatre of War, Artillery Men at Football and Gassed, span the war from its beginning to its ...
Anonymous, Baynes John, Bond Brian, Bone Sylvester, Brandon Laura, Charteris Evan, Cork Richard, Cowen Ruth, Davis Wade, Forster Edward M., Fuller J.G., Gough Paul, Hart B.H. Liddell, Hart Peter, Hichberger Joan Winifred Martin, Houfe Simon, Iain Adams, Imperial War Museum, Johnson Peter, Lee Vernon, Lomas David, Malvern Sue, Mason Tony, Moorhouse Brendon, Nicholls Jonathon, O’Flinn Paul, Stevenson David, Terraine John, The Crawford Centre for the Arts, The Fine Art Society, Thorpe James   +30 more
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Top 50 most-cited articles in medicine and science in football

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2018
Objectives To conduct a comprehensive mapping analysis to the scientific literature published in football aiming to identify the areas of bigger interest and potential for further exploration.Methods The data were obtained by a search conducted on the ...
João Brito, George P Nassis, André T Seabra, Pedro Figueiredo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perspectives and practices of nutritionists on dietary supplements for elite soccer teams: a cross-sectional survey study

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023
Introduction and objectivesDietary supplements are part of the nutritional strategies frequently applied in sports performance support. With growing research on this subject and high demand from athletes, nutritionists need to keep up to date with the ...
Rodrigo Abreu, Rodrigo Abreu, Catarina B. Oliveira, Catarina B. Oliveira, João Brito, Vitor H. Teixeira, Vitor H. Teixeira, Vitor H. Teixeira, Vitor H. Teixeira   +8 more
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Empowering young people: Powerful knowledge in economics

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Powerful knowledge in school economics is conceptualised as the blending of economics knowledge arising from grasping threshold concepts with expressions of disciplinary thinking in terms of the powers or capabilities that this knowledge can provide to students who possess it.
Emanuel Mizzi
wiley   +1 more source