The opinions concerning economic, social and cultural of the foreign footballers about playing football in the Turkish Professional Football Leagues

Authors

  • Eyüp Yıldırım
  • Mehmet Sezen
  • Yüksel Savucu
  • Özgür Karataş

Keywords:

Football, foreign footballer, economic aspect, social aspect, cultural aspect

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the opinions concerning economic, social and cultural of foreign footballers about playing football in the Turkish professional football leagues.

The population of the study consisted of 71 foreign players from 12 teams (Ç. Rize, Sivas Spor, Konya Spor, Kayseri Spor, Kayseri Erciyes Spor, G. Antep Spor, Antalya Spor, Denizli Spor, Sakarya Spor, Ankaragücü, Gençlerbirliği, Ankaraspor,) in 2006-2007 football seasons in Turkcell Super League and Bank Asya 1st League category.

Data had got from the questionnaire which has been done to the sample players by the researcher. Frequency, percent and arithmetic average was used for the description statistical analysis of the subjects’ personal info.

As a result, it has been determined that the foreign footballers’ reason of selecting playing football in Turkey caused of economical reasons, they can create a friendship in and out of football field with native footballers, enjoying Turkish cuisine and Turkish music, telling positive opinions about Turkey when they return to their country, they want some special requests in their agreements. 

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Author Biographies

Eyüp Yıldırım

Fırat Üniversitesi, Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu, Elazığ

Mehmet Sezen

Gazi University, School of Physical Education and Spor, Ankara, Turkey

Yüksel Savucu

Fırat University, School of Physical Education and Spor, Elazığ, Turkey

Özgür Karataş

İnönü University, School of Physical Education and Spor, Malatya, Turkey

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Published

2012-01-24

How to Cite

Yıldırım, E., Sezen, M., Savucu, Y., & Karataş, Özgür. (2012). The opinions concerning economic, social and cultural of the foreign footballers about playing football in the Turkish Professional Football Leagues. Journal of Human Sciences, 9(1), 283–295. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/1611

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Physical Education and Sport Sciences

License

Uluslararası İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi ISSN:1303-5134
International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489
 
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