From football player to trainer. Relationality of the football biography’s main character Cover Image

Od futbolisty do trenera. Relacyjność bohatera biografii piłkarzy
From football player to trainer. Relationality of the football biography’s main character

Author(s): Małgorzata Stadnik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: biography; football biography; sports biography; anthropology of football

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to illustrate the method of subject creation in a contemporary football biography written during a career, after retirement as well as after becoming a professional coach/ manager. The author tries to present the way of entanglement of the biographical subject in a variety of relationships – mainly on professional field. Reflection contains the influence of marketing and pop culture on the final form of biography. The author analyzes the most recent twenty-first century biographies and contains their changes over the history of sports biography subgenere.

  • Issue Year: 7/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 175-185
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish