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The first stage of the "SportEnt" project has been completed

AFFA published on: 19.11.2020 print
The first stage of European Union’s Erasmus + funded “SportEnt” project, which AFFA is part of, has been completed. The main goal of the project is to provide athletes with dual career opportunities. Next stages of the project have been identified based on a survey with participation of professional and semi-professional football players of participant countries.
The first stage of the "SportEnt" project has been completed
Executive Summary 
 
The international survey of approximately 400 young football players across six European national football associations asked players dozens of questions on their attitude towards their second career path. Target group was football players, age between 18 and 30, who are actively playing in professional and semi-professional teams and football leagues. The survey was conducted in July 2020 among 395 football players. An online quantitative questionnaire, targeted at professional/semi-professional football players, was designed, and circulated among the football players across the countries. 
 
  • 328 participants in the survey provided complete responses, which are analyzed in this report. The respondents were primarily: 
  • residents of Slovenia (37%; n=122), North Macedonia (32%; n=106) and Azerbaijan (18%; n=60),
  • male (83%; n=273), 
  • age between 16 and 30 (89%; n=293), 
  • payed by their clubs for playing football (73%; n=240), majority of which on a full-time basis (58%; n=135). 
 
The survey was designed specifically to gather the opinions of active young football players on their career after they stop playing football. 
 
The results of the survey show that football players are interested in becoming entrepreneurs, whether as specialists, running community programmes, educational programmes, or non-profit organizations, becoming investors in start-ups or innovating products, services, and technologies. Players can use different skills during their entrepreneurship: discipline, teamwork, patience, respect, and resilience. 
 
In the light of the survey, it is recommended to provide football players with a training on entrepreneurship, in order to provide a possible professional alternative after their football career or to be able to approach the sports field from a business perspective during the time on the football field. They would appreciate mentoring support regarding their follow-on career and are willing to invest their time in trainings on the topic of entrepreneurship. Becoming entrepreneur represents not only an option to generate economic income, but also the possibility of professional growth, which is what would move the players most to participate in such courses.
 
The main sections of this report include: 
 
  • The background and objectives for the project, 
  • The methodology employed for the project, 
  • Survey results, 
  • An analysis of those results and
  • Conclusions and recommendations.
 
Follow the link to read the detailed report: https://www.sportent.org/survey
 
 
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