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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816805503321

Autore

Campbell Paul

Titolo

Education, retirement and career transitions for 'Black' ex-professional footballers : 'from being idolised to stacking shelves' / / authored by Paul Campbell (Coventry University, UK)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-83867-040-8

1-83867-038-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 pages)

Collana

Emerald Points

Disciplina

796.3

Soggetti

Athletes, Black - Retirement - Great Britain

Soccer players - Retirement - Great Britain

Sports & Recreation - General

Ball games

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter one : Introduction -- Chapter two : Working-class soccer schoolboys, race and education in England -- Chapter three : Football professionals, qualifications and post-playing career preparations -- Chapter four : Retirement, training and transitions into non-sport work -- Chapter five : Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a combination of interviews and auto-ethnographic data, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footballers provides a case-study of 16 'black' British male professional footballers' preparedness and experiences of retirement and transition from careers as professional athletes to mainstream work. The author examines these men's sporting experiences during three life phases: As professional schoolboy footballers; as professionals; and during retirement and career transition to mainstream careers. In doing so, this book expands on how these men's experiences of and preparedness for retirement and career transition are influenced and often complicated by the cultures, practices, and expectations that shaped the professional game when they were players. It also offers an



account of the ways these experiences were complicated by issues of race. Researchers, students, sports enthusiasts and anyone interested in questions of race, masculinity, employment, retirement, mental health, and professional sport in late modern Britain will find Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footballers useful, informative and engaging.