Ensuring satisfaction in rural youth soccer: The consequences of ageunbalanced teams, and suggested remedies

IF 0.1 Q4 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Christian Fischer
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In rural areas, the formation of competitive youth soccer teams has become increasingly difficult due to declining numbers. Often, sport clubs are forced to pool children and adolescents into multi-age teams and must play with fewer (substitute) players than their opponents. This study quantifies the effects of average team age and size differences on match outcomes as measured by goal difference. Regression analyses were conducted using data from 82 matches of a rural recreational male youth soccer team (U-13 to U- 16) in northern Italy. Results show that teams’ average age differences begin to significantly affect match outcomes at a threshold of 90 days onwards. The effect was about one additional goal per 45 days of a team age difference. The influence of unequal substitute numbers depended on team age differences but averaged approximately 0.5 goals per additional substitute. The home-field effect was not significant. Based on the estimates, match outcomes corrected for differences in average team age and size were calculated. It is suggested that communicating corrected match outcomes might help reduce player frustrations, which could impact activity abandonment and stabilise countryside communities.
农村青少年足球满意度保障:球队年龄失衡的后果及对策建议
在农村地区,由于人数减少,组建有竞争力的青少年足球队变得越来越困难。通常,体育俱乐部被迫将儿童和青少年组成多年龄队,并且必须比他们的对手少(替补)球员。本研究量化了平均球队年龄和规模差异对比赛结果的影响,以净胜球来衡量。本文采用意大利北部某乡村休闲男子青少年足球队(U-13至U- 16) 82场比赛的数据进行回归分析。结果表明,球队的平均年龄差异在90天之后开始显著影响比赛结果。结果是球队年龄差距每45天增加一个进球。替补人数不均等的影响取决于球队的年龄差异,但平均每个替补出场约0.5个进球。主场效应不显著。在此基础上,计算出了校正了平均球队年龄和规模差异的比赛结果。有人建议,沟通正确的比赛结果可能有助于减少玩家的挫败感,这可能会影响活动放弃和稳定农村社区。
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International Sports Studies
International Sports Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-
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期刊介绍: International Sports Studies (ISS) is a scholarly journal in the field of physical education and sport with a unique focus. Its aim is to advance understanding and communication between members of the global community who share a professional, personal or scholarly interest in the state and development of physical education and sport around the world. International Sports Studies (ISS) is today without paradigmatic prejudice and reflects an eclectic approach to the task of understanding physical education and sport in the contemporary world. It asks only that its contributors can add to knowledge about international physical education and sport studies through studies involving comparisons between regional, national and international settings or by providing unique insights into specific national and local phenomena which contribute to an understanding that can be shared across as well as within national borders.
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