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Critical Thinking as a Defense Against Exploitation: Preparing Young Footballers for Life Beyond the Game
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This work examines the intersection of critical thinking, football, and neocolonial exploitation, focusing on challenges faced by young footballers from marginalized communities. Drawing on Critical Race Theory (CRT) it argues that critical thinking empowers players to resist systemic...
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Predicting Concussion Symptoms: The Impact of Pre-Injury Risk Factors on Post-Concussion Symptom Severity in Football Players
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This thesis explores how pre-existing mental health factors—anxiety, depression, concussion history, learning disorders, and ADHD—affect post-concussion outcomes in Canadian Football League (CFL) athletes. The study addresses a gap in the literature by investigating whether baseline mental health...
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Fall 2017
This study examined how model youth football coaches developed their leadership styles. Six model youth football coaches (M age = 46 years, SD = 6), and one athlete from each stage of the coaches’ careers (early, middle, recent; n = 18, M age = 24 years, SD = 4) were purposefully sampled. Each...
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The End of the Road?: Discipline and Retirement in British Professional and Semi-Professional Football
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Overman (2009) has noted that there is no single representative experience of retirement in sport; however, it is clear that retirement from sport is challenging (Sparkes, 1998). Despite over sixty years of sports retirement research, problems continue to be reported amongst retiring athletes...