Integrated Football: A New Frontier of Sport for All to Change the Attitudes

Year 2017, Special Issue 2, 229 - 238, 22.12.2017

Angela Magnanını

Abstract

Every
person has the right to express their full potential in life. Thus, sport too
must provide an occasion for personal and social development. Sport is a source
of values as well as of counter-values as is the case with lack of respect,
abuse of power towards competitors, breaking rules, success at all costs.
People with disability often have no access to sport practice which, instead,
is very important especially for children, due to its high educational value.
Also, in their daily lives, people with disability encounter barriers that
limit and influence their possibilities of dealing with and of relating to
people without disabilities on an equal basis. In this direction, this paper
present a new integrated sport, created by a team of researchers through the
European project “Integrated football. A new Frontier of Sport for All”
co-funded by the Erasmus+ Sport Program (2016-17), in wich Univerity of Rome
Foro Italico is involved. The paper will, still, show the results of a
qualitative analysis of a focus group, organized at the end of the project with
the referents of Country involved. The aim is check the change in perception of
sport and disability. The change of attitude shows trends of validity of the
inclusive sport model, especially in countries where there is no long inclusive
tradition.

Keywords

Inclusion, Sport, Football, Qualitative Research

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