Africans’ Status in the European Football Players’ Labour Market

Poli, Raffaele

doi:10.1080/14660970600615369

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“…Freddie's youthful sporting career stands at the extreme of our respondents' engagement in sports before they came to the UK, and mirrors the stories told by many other young African men who travel abroad to try to 'make it' as a professional footballer (Poli, 2006). But the seriousness of his sports career was matched in many ways by two of the others in our study.…”

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Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: challenging the contribution of sport

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“…This situation has been explained at the macro level: after the success of African teams at the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cups and youth tournaments in the late 1980s and early 1990s, African players became augmented transfer targets of European clubs. The number of African players recruited by European clubs increased more noticeably after 1995 following the introduction of the Bosman ruling and the rise in value of broadcasting rights, going from 160 in the mid-1990s to 316 in the mid2000s (Poli 2006). While the Bosman ruling eased foreign player restrictions in European professional football according to general EU labor market regulations and also made it possible for clubs to include more footballers from outside the EU in their squads, it also stipulated that all players whose contracts had expired were free to sign for another club without paying any form of compensation to their previous club.…”

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A Social Negotiation of Hope: Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming Through Football

Ungruhe¹

2017

Boyhood Studies

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This article examines the present-day perception among boys and young men in West Africa that migration through football offers a way of achieving social standing and improving their life chances. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among footballers in urban southern Ghana between 2010 and 2016, we argue that young people's efforts to make it abroad and "become a somebody" through football is not merely an individual fantasy; it is rather a social negotiation of hope to overcome widespread social immobility in the region. It is this collective practice among a large cohort of young males-realistic or not-which qualifies conceptualizations of youth transitions such as waithood that dominate academic understanding of African youth today.

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“…Outside the higher echelons of the more lucrative leagues in England, Italy, Spain, France and Germany, salaries are modest at best (Poli, 2006;FIFPro, 2016). Despite this, increasing numbers of young people are investing in football-related migratory projects, especially through an expanding and diverse academy system.…”

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Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

Lindsey

Darby

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This article addresses the urgent need for critical analysis of the relationships between sport and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) enshrined in the United Nations' global development framework, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Importantly, there has yet to be any substantial academic exploration of the implications of the position accorded to sport as 'an important enabler' of the aims of 2030 Agenda and its broad set of SDGs. In beginning to address this gap, we draw on the concept of policy coherence for two reasons. Firstly, the designation of a specific SDG Target for policy coherence is recognition of its centrality in working towards SDGs that are considered as 'integrated and indivisible'. Secondly, the concept of policy coherence is centred on a dualism that enables holistic examination of both synergies through which the contribution of sport to the SDGs can be enhanced as well as incoherencies by which sport may detract from such outcomes. Our analysis progresses through three examples that focus on the common orientation of the Sport for Development and Peace 'movement' towards education-orientated objectives aligned with SDG 4; potential synergies between sport participation policies and the SDG 3 Target for reducing non-communicable diseases; and practices within professional football in relation to several migration-related SDG Targets. These examples show the relevance of the SDGs across diverse sectors of the sport industry and illustrate complexities within and across countries that make pursuit of comprehensive policy coherence infeasible. Nevertheless, our analyses lead us to encourage both policy makers and researchers to continue to utilise the concept of policy coherence as a valuable lens to identify and consider factors that may enable and constrain various potential contributions of sport to a range of SDGs.

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Africans’ Status in the European Football Players’ Labour Market

Cited by 75 publications

References 3 publications

Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: challenging the contribution of sport

Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: challenging the contribution of sport

A Social Negotiation of Hope: Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming Through Football

Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

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