Search for dissertations about: "football"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the word football.

  2. 1. Epidemiology and prevention of football injuries

    Author : Martin Hägglund; Jan Ekstrand; Lars Engebretsen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Football; Injury prevention; Incidence; Re-injury; Rehabilitation; Elite; Social medicine; Socialmedicin;

    Abstract : The aims of this thesis were to study the incidence, severity and pattern of injury in male and female elite football players; to study time trends in injury risk; to identify risk factors for injury; and to test the effectiveness of an intervention programme aimed at preventing re-injury.All studies followed a prospective design using standardised definitions and data collection forms. READ MORE

  4. 2. Epidemiology of injuries in elite football

    Author : Markus Waldén; Jan Ekstrand; Harald Roos; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Elite; epidemiology; football; injuries; Social medicine; Socialmedicin;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to study the injury characteristics in elite football, and risk factors for injury with special emphasis on anterior cruciate ligament injury. All five papers followed a prospective design using a standardised methodology. READ MORE

  5. 3. Identities and images in football : a case study of brands and the organisational settings in the development of Scandinavian women’s club football

    Author : Mattias Melkersson; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : Women s football; Gender; Scandinavia; Development; Identity; Brand Identity; Brand Image; Gender; Organisation; Viability; Visibility; Professional Sports;

    Abstract : Women’s football has developed significantly throughout recent years. Not only in regards to the increased amount of participants or on-field achievements, but furthermore in regards to recognition, professionalism and organisation. READ MORE

  6. 4. From Custom to Code : A Sociological Interpretation of the Making of Association Football

    Author : Dominik Döllinger; Patrik Aspers; Tora Holmberg; Patrick McGovern; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; historical sociology; football; custom; culture; community; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : The present study is a sociological interpretation of the emergence of modern football between 1733 and 1864. It focuses on the decades leading up to the foundation of the Football Association in 1863 and observes how folk football gradually develops into a new form which expresses itself in written codes, clubs and associations. READ MORE

  7. 5. "We can make new history here" : Rituals of producing history in Swedish football clubs

    Author : Katarzyna Herd; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Keywords : History; Football; AIK; Djurgårdens IF; Helsingborgs IF; Malmö FF; Collective memory; ritual; myth; Ethnology; narrativity; supporters; intertextuality;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates how history is produced, what roles it plays, and what forms it takes in four Swedish football clubs – AIK, Djurgårdens IF, Helsingborgs IF and Malmö FF. The overreaching aim is to describe and analyse how history is produced and performed in football clubs, and the implications this development has for football and for the understanding of history. READ MORE