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Football Development Index - Rationale, Methodology, and Application (Hardcover)
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Football Development Index - Rationale, Methodology, and Application (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 3 540
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This book provides a systematic overview of football development
from a scientific perspective. The proposed multidimensional
framework of assessing the concept of sports development (with a
deliberate emphasis on association football) goes beyond the
conventional medal tally counts and win percentages. The conceptual
foundation of the Football Development Index (FDI) revolves around
the understanding that football development grasps all athletic
proficiency levels from grassroots to elite, and includes all
football stakeholders. The proposed composite indicator of football
development highlights three key dimensions: on-pitch performance,
popularity, and development environment. The book provides both a
conceptual discussion on football development as well as an
overview of the various techniques used for constructing composite
indicators. The practical implications of a multidimensional index
on football development cover a vast array of fundamental sports
economics and management issues such as performance measurement and
management, fairness of funding allocation, sports development
policy, stakeholder relations, and many others. While providing
concrete guidelines and recommendations, this book also raises some
fundamental issues, such as whether socio-economic determinants can
affect a nation's sporting performance. Results turn out to be
inconclusive, but going further with this notion, the correlations
between socio-economic development levels and football development
seem to produce more insightful findings, which shed light on more
questions than the book has the ability to answer. The findings of
this research may be adopted by FIFA and continental and national
federations to objectify decision-making regarding development
programs and activities. This book embodies a systematic assessment
approach, which can be adapted to fit the needs of any football
governing body and which provides an opportunity to benchmark the
best global football development practices. The research also
contributes to the theoretic development of performance measurement
systems in sports and to the widely discussed issue of direct and
indirect determinants of football development.
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