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Compression Wear Design for Women's Soccer Players (여자 축구선수를 위한 컴프레션 웨어 설계)

  • Park, Sanghee
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.127-142
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to organize the prototype design method of compression wear for women professional soccer players. Despite the excellent performance of female soccer players in world competition, most functional wear has been developed mainly for men, so professional female athletes have fewer choices. Soccer is a sport requiring core and lower body muscle strength, and muscular endurance for long periods of playing or walking on the field. Female soccer players did not differ much in upper body compared to other women, but their lower body had a smaller hip circumference than waist circumference and a larger thigh circumference, requiring compilation considering the physical characteristics and movement of athletes. Female soccer players wear sports bras while playing but regular bras and compression wear during normal exercise because they sweat on under their breast, which irritates sensitive skin. For core muscles in the upper body and to support for thigh and hip muscles in the lower body, the uniform in this study was designed by reducing the body size of a professional female soccer player in her 20s and the actual measurements of commercial compilation software to 81% of the chest circumference, 95% of the waist circumference, and 78% of the hip circumference. The design experiment in this study was a simple exercise and did not produce produce results for long-term exercise and performance improvement, but can be used to design a composition pattern system for other professional female athletes.

The Comparative Study on the Supplement Use Habits of Korean Professional Soccer Players and Non-Athletic Males (일부 프로 축구선수들과 성인 남성의 건강보조제 섭취 실태에 관한 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Hye-Kyeong;Kim, Kyung-Min;Kim, Chan;Kim, Jun-Ho;Kim, Chul-Hyun;Kwon, Jong-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.854-863
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    • 2007
  • This study was performed to compare nutritional supplementation habits for Korean professional soccer players with those for the non-athletic male adults. Information about prevalence and kinds of supplements taken, information sources, nutrition knowledge were collected. Data were obtained from 53 football players working for Korean professional football clubs and 44 non-athletic males, who answered a list of questionnaires which had been prepared in advance. The prevalence of supplement use in the soccer player group (96%) was strikingly higher than in the nonathletic male group (34%). Vitamins were taken most frequently, followed by red ginseng, multivitamin, Chinese medicine and amino acids supplements in the soccer player group, with each player taking 2.96 kinds of supplements in average. Multivitamin was the most popular supplement in the non-athletic male group. The major reason for taking supplements was not to feel and recover from fatigue in both groups. It appeared that the non-athletic males started to use supplements mostly by recommendation of friends or colleagues. Meanwhile, soccer players took supplements on their needs, with half of them (50.1%) provided with nutrition information. The most important information source was coaches for soccer players group, and mass media for the non-athletic male group. The average scores of soccer players group on basic nutrition and athletic nutrition were lower than the respective values of the non-athletic males. Among the soccer players, 68% had taken more than 3 kinds of supplements during the last year; nonetheless, more than half could not perceive the effectiveness of the supplements. Our results show that supplementation practices were widespread in soccer players, and suggest that nutrition education for proper use of supplements and overall health care is needed for soccer players.

A Study on the Analysis for Business performance of Provincial and Municipal Professional Soccer Teams Using Financial Statements

  • KIM, So Hee;YOON, Sang Hoon;HAN, Seung Jin
    • Journal of Sport and Applied Science
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: This study aims to analyze the management environment provincial and municipal professional soccer teams based on financial statements at a time when strengthening the financial soundness of domestic professional soccer teams is emphasized. Research design, data, and methodology: This study analyzed the financial statements (2018-2020) of the six teams of the provincial and municipal professional soccer teams whose financial statements were disclosed. The statements includes indicators of growth, profit and stability, which represents the main business performance of the entity. Results: As a result of the study, First, in terms of sales growth, sales in 2020 fell sharply year-on-year due to the impact of Covid-19. Second, the increase in sales through the import of player transfer fees had a positive impact on the growth of the business performance of the provincial and municipal professional soccer teams. Third, the profitability of the provincial and municipal professional soccer team is still low. Fourth, the debt ratio of the provincial and municipal professional soccer team was high, indicating that stability was serious. Conclusions: In order to increase sales, various strategies and measures are needed to overcome external factors such as media content products and non-face-to-face content strategies. The provincial and municipal professional soccer team, which has weak self-sustaining operations, needs to generate more profits through transferring players as a new management (profit) model, and first of all, a long-term strategy is needed to secure financial stability by improving the club's profitability.

Influence of Spectators' Life Style on the Loyalty and Appeal of Professional Soccer (프로축구관중의 라이프스타일이 충성도 및 관람유인요인에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Hong-Seol;Byeon, Yeong-Geun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.10
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    • pp.278-286
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    • 2008
  • This study's purpose is to offer to basic data in each professional soccer team's spectator marketing strategy through researching the influence of spectators' life style on the appeal of professional soccer. This study's survey is target 500 spectators who were present at the professional soccer championship game in 2007 at Seongnam Stadium. Data analysis was done on 484 spectators's questionnaires using SPSS V. 12.0. To analyze materials the frequency, correlations, and regression analysis were used as statistic analysis techniques. The conclusion based on above study method and the result of material analysis are here below. First, the influence of spectator's life-style on the loyalty(action loyalty, attitude loyalty)of professional soccer. Second, the influence of spectator's life style on the appeal(field factor, game circumstance factor, spectating expense factor, promotion factor, entertainment factor, player factor)of professional soccer.

The Use of Nutritional Supplements in Korean Elite Soccer Players (한국 프로축구 선수들의 영양보충제 섭취 실태)

  • Lee Hyun-Sook
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.299-306
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    • 2006
  • This study was done to investigate the use of nutritional supplements (NS) in Korean elite soccer players using an anonymous questionnaire. NS were classified into health supplements, manufactured health food supplements, chinese medicines & tonic foods, and nutrient supplements. Information was sought on the type of NS and factors that might influence supplement use including selected demographic parameters and health related variables. The data were collected from 241 athletes (aged $24.6{\pm}3.8$ years) in 9 professional soccer club. The prevalence of NS use among the subjects was 81.3%. Health supplements were used most frequently and nutrient supplement drug was the second one. Among the health supplements, weight/muscle gainer and calorie replacement product were most frequently used. Vitamin supplements were most frequently used among all nutrient supplement drugs. Users of NS were higher age (p<0.05) duration of exercise (p<0.05), and income (p<0.05) than non-users. The married (p<0.05) and a member of K-league (p<0.01) tended to have higher prevalence of NS use. The main adviser of NS were family (55.3%) and oneself (39%) instead of coach or sports nutritionist. Although NS use, only 26.2% certainly check up nutritional information on their used NS. Among the subjects, 84.5% of them felt that NS use were improved athletic performance, and 86.5% of them will to keep on taking supplement. These data suggest that a large number of elite soccer players use NS and these players may require education about healthy nutritional supplement practice and on the proper use of nutritional supplements.

Pre-seasonal Physical Examination of Professional Soccer Team (프로 축구팀의 시즌 전 체력검사)

  • Lee, Kyung-Tai;Choi, Byung-Ok
    • Journal of Korean Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.129-134
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    • 2006
  • Purpose: In the professional soccer team, we performed pre-seasonal physical examination and analyzed the results to establish a standardization data in relation to their position. Materials and Methods: We performed physical examination to the professional soccer team, consisted 34 player's average age 24.9 years. The examination performed were questionnaire on history, musculoskeletal examination, muscle power test, physiologic test, functional test. Results: According to the relationship between player position and injury pattern,. Knee injuries are most frequent on history. Physical examination outcome was that forward were prone to flexor hallucis longus tendinitis, midfielder for chronic ankle instability, defender for achilles tendinitis. Isokinetic test was done at dominant side, Peak torque to body weight ratio was 55.1%. Physiologic test checked body fat percentage was midfielder was superior as 19.8 (SD 2.9). Functional test out-come was that back strength 125 N. sergeant jump 59.6 cm, reaction time 208.5 sec, flexibility 19.2 m/s, side step 39.9 cm. Conclusion: Pre-seasonal physical examination gave us the standardization data and preventive measurement could be advocated from this results.

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Exploring Beginning youth Football Coach's Experience in Teaching (초임 유소년 축구지도자의 교수경험 탐색)

  • Ju-Seok Yoon;Sang-Haeng Lee
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.55-65
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to explore the teaching experience of first-time youth soccer leaders. To this end, four leaders registered in the U-12 team were selected from those with more than 10 years of player experience, less than 5 years of coaching experience, and a level C or higher of the Korea Football Association leader's license. Accordingly, the analysis categories and analysis units were categorized according to the research problem, and data analysis was conducted through an inductive method. As a result of the study, youth soccer leaders were starting their coaching with the mindset of "I shouldn't" and "I can do it" based on their past experiences. They who concerned their uncertainty about the future in the teaching field were struggling with how to communicate with student and were less professional in teaching and learning ability. but they were trying to gain expertise while feeling rewarded in teaching. Accordingly, it was discussed to improve the treatment of youth soccer leaders and improve the program that is the leader training system.

Analysis of Football Fans' Uniform Consumption: Before and After Son Heung-Min's Transfer to Tottenham Hotspur FC (국내 프로축구 팬들의 유니폼 소비 분석: 손흥민의 토트넘 홋스퍼 FC 이적 전후 비교)

  • Choi, Yeong-Hyeon;Lee, Kyu-Hye
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.91-108
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    • 2020
  • Korea's famous soccer players are steadily performing well in international leagues, which led to higher interests of Korean fans in the international leagues. Reflecting the growing social phenomenon of rising interests on international leagues by Korean fans, the study examined the overall consumer perception in the consumption of uniform by domestic soccer fans and compared the changes in perception following the transfers of the players. Among others, the paper examined the consumer perception and purchase factors of soccer fans shown in social media, focusing on periods before and after the recruitment of Heung-Min Son to English Premier League's Tottenham Football Club. To this end, the EPL uniform is the collection keyword the paper utilized and collected consumer postings from domestic website and social media via Python 3.7, and analyzed them using Ucinet 6, NodeXL 1.0.1, and SPSS 25.0 programs. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, the uniform of the club that consistently topped the league, has been gaining attention as a popular uniform, and the players' performance, and the players' position have been identified as key factors in the purchase and search of professional football uniforms. In the case of the club, the actual ranking and whether the league won are shown to be important factors in the purchase and search of professional soccer uniforms. The club's emblem and the sponsor logo that will be attached to the uniform are also factors of interest to consumers. In addition, in the decision making process of purchase of a uniform by professional soccer fan, uniform's form, marking, authenticity, and sponsors are found to be more important than price, design, size, and logo. The official online store has emerged as a major purchasing channel, followed by gifts for friends or requests from acquaintances when someone travels to the United Kingdom. Second, a classification of key control categories through the convergence of iteration correlation analysis and Clauset-Newman-Moore clustering algorithm shows differences in the classification of individual groups, but groups that include the EPL's club and player keywords are identified as the key topics in relation to professional football uniforms. Third, between 2002 and 2006, the central theme for professional football uniforms was World Cup and English Premier League, but from 2012 to 2015, the focus has shifted to more interest of domestic and international players in the English Premier League. The subject has changed to the uniform itself from this time on. In this context, the paper can confirm that the major issues regarding the uniforms of professional soccer players have changed since Ji-Sung Park's transfer to Manchester United, and Sung-Yong Ki, Chung-Yong Lee, and Heung-Min Son's good performances in these leagues. The paper also identified that the uniforms of the clubs to which the players have transferred to are of interest. Fourth, both male and female consumers are showing increasing interest in Son's league, the English Premier League, which Tottenham FC belongs to. In particular, the increasing interest in Son has shown a tendency to increase interest in football uniforms for female consumers. This study presents a variety of researches on sports consumption and has value as a consumer study by identifying unique consumption patterns. It is meaningful in that the accuracy of the interpretation has been enhanced by using a cluster analysis via convergence of iteration correlation analysis and Clauset-Newman-Moore clustering algorithm to identify the main topics. Based on the results of this study, the clubs will be able to maximize its profits and maintain good relationships with fans by identifying key drivers of consumer awareness and purchasing for professional soccer fans and establishing an effective marketing strategy.

Analysis of Seasonal Injuries in Professional Football Player (프로 축구 팀의 월별 부상실태에 관한 조사)

  • Lee, Kyung-Tai;Choi, Byung-Ok;Kim, Jin-Su
    • Journal of Korean Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2006
  • Purpose: To investigate the risk exposure, risk of injury, and injury pattern of football players in seasonal variation. We purposed to expect the injury and its' prevention. Material and Methods: The professional football club(45 players) in Seoul were followed prospectively throughout 2005, January to 2005, December. Injury pattern and incidence were recorded. Results: Total 157 injuries were recorded. Major injuries which could not attend to game and training were 87 cases. Most severe month was June about 16 injuries(18.4%). And, the competitive season injuries were 46(52.9%) in March, April, August and September. Especially, ankle sprain and contusion injuries were common cause of absence in game. And, thigh muscle group injuries had a high risk of reinjury, because of treat insufficiently. Conclusions: We enhance the ability of the soccer team by prevention and education for injuries, especially in season.

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