Football Fitness - for the sake of one’s health? The perspectives of female players
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Football Fitness - for the sake of one’s health? The perspectives of female players. / Thing, Lone Friis; Hybholt, Maria Gliemann; Jensen, Andorra Lynn; Ottesen, Laila.
I: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, Bind 12, Nr. 1, 2020, s. 63-75.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Football Fitness - for the sake of one’s health? The perspectives of female players
AU - Thing, Lone Friis
AU - Hybholt, Maria Gliemann
AU - Jensen, Andorra Lynn
AU - Ottesen, Laila
N1 - CURIS 2020 NEXS 014
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The aim of the article is to understand the potential of football in healthinitiatives for women – a topic relatively underrepresented in research.Specifically, this article examines the case of ‘Football Fitness’, a new ‘sport for all’ programme carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The article is based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27–56). The study shows that while health may have been the motivation for the women to join the programme, they emphasize the joy of playing football and the fellowship in the club as crucial for their participation. This programme has succeeded in making football more accessible and inclusive by reducing the focus on competencies and competition and changing the organisation to make it more flexible. The playful quest for excitement and social aspects of sport may hold great potential and be worth considering when developing health programmes in a democratic way.
AB - The aim of the article is to understand the potential of football in healthinitiatives for women – a topic relatively underrepresented in research.Specifically, this article examines the case of ‘Football Fitness’, a new ‘sport for all’ programme carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The article is based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27–56). The study shows that while health may have been the motivation for the women to join the programme, they emphasize the joy of playing football and the fellowship in the club as crucial for their participation. This programme has succeeded in making football more accessible and inclusive by reducing the focus on competencies and competition and changing the organisation to make it more flexible. The playful quest for excitement and social aspects of sport may hold great potential and be worth considering when developing health programmes in a democratic way.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Football fitness
KW - Women
KW - Health
KW - Football
KW - Quest for exitement
U2 - 10.1080/2159676X.2019.1595106
DO - 10.1080/2159676X.2019.1595106
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 63
EP - 75
JO - Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
JF - Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
SN - 2159-676X
IS - 1
ER -
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