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K problematice vzdělanostní struktury hráčů fotbalu a populace mužů ČR
To the issue of education level football players

Author(s): Jaromír Votík, Jan Lavička
Subject(s): Sports Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: educational structure; football players; performance level; representatives of the Czech Republic; comparison

Summary/Abstract: The education level of the population is generally of growing importance. It is an essential elementof social and economic growth of society and individuals. The very specific problem is the educationof the active, primarily elite (professional) sportsmen influencing their current personal developmentaccompanied simultaneously operating and often contradictory requirements of educational processand cultivation of the sports performance. The objective of the provided study was to discover andanalyze the educational structure of contemporary football professionals – representatives of theCzech Republic and football players at the performance level with the male population of the CzechRepublic in attempt to explain the main cause of differences in this structure. The survey included42 representatives of the Czech Republic and 111 football players at the performance level. In the researchmethods of semistructured directed interview and a questionnaire – survey were applied. Dataprocessing was based on descriptive statistics, a method of data categorization was used, including thepercent expression of frequencies. The comparison of the obtained data indicates that there are moremutual causes which could influent differences in the educational structures of examined probands,they are changeable and determined by variables rising from conditions of social, family or footballenvironment. As estimated, the major differences were found in the group of contemporary footballrepresentative players where the influence of social, family and football environment was presentedby the absence of the category ‘university education’.

  • Issue Year: 12/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 191-200
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English, Czech