The purpose with this study was to investigate how individuals who had to end their elite sports career due to injury or other factors were affected by the significant change in their life. The eventual aim with this thesis is to show the difficulties these former elite sports practitioners have experienced. Therefore, we want to encourage sports organizations and associations to take actions towards improving the help for these individuals who might need support when ending their career in sports. This research was done by interviewing individuals who have experienced this drastic change in their life, injuries that forced them to end their elite sports career. The results showed that our informants received various degrees of help from their sports clubs. Furthermore, they were helped in different ways, ranging from meeting physiotherapists to being asked to become a coach to remain in the sport. However, the vast majority experienced a lack of help from their clubs and felt that they had to manage the challenges that came after a career ending injury alone. Moreover, the fact that most of our informants had not thought about a civilian career made it more difficult to deal with not being able to practice sports anymore. This meant that most of our informants suffered from psychological, as well as physical difficulties after their involuntary end to sports. In conclusion, sports organizations and clubs do not yet have the proper plans on how to help these individuals. As the sports movement is a large arena where young people are taught values, characteristics and responsibility over themselves and our society, it’s fair to say that they also have a responsibility for all practitioners, injured or not. In order to help society, sports organizations ought to help injured players onto the next stage in their lives.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-185806 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Fellström, Christopher, Zarassi, Parva |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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