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Judo follows Ella as she learns all about judo, from chest holds to break falls.

Football follows Freddie as he goes to his local football club - from warming up and dribbling to the final game and goal scoring.

Drawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and outcomes of forced migration and the 'refugee crisis'. Adopting a systems theory framework and examining different sport disciplines, performance levels and settings, it represents a significant contribution to our understanding of one of the most urgent social issues facing the modern world. The book explores four key aspects of sport’s intersection with forced migration. Firstly, it looks at how the media covers sport in relation to the 'refugee crisis', specifically coverage of refugee elite athletes. Secondly, it examines the adaptation of sport organisations to the 'refugee crisis', including the culture, programmes and structures that promote or obstruct sport for refugees. Thirdly, the book looks at sport in refugee sites, and how sport can be used as therapy, an escape or empowerment for refugees but also how it can reinforce the divisions between staff and the refugees themselves. Finally, the book looks at how forced migration influences and is influenced by participation in elite sport, by examining the biographies of elite migrant athletes. A richly descriptive, critical and illuminating piece of work, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport, migration, sociology or the relationship between sport and wider society.

Sowohl der Grundschulsport als auch das organisierte und informelle Sporttreiben im Kindesalter sind in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten mit neuartigen Herausforderungen konfrontiert und von Wandlungsprozessen erfasst worden. Neben der Berücksichtigung heterogener Lernvoraussetzungen der Schüler*innen im Fach Sport hat nicht zuletzt die Etablierung des Ganztagsunterrichts in der Grundschule eine massive Ausweitung der Kooperationen mit Sportvereinen sowie Trägern der offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit begünstigt. Die Beiträger*innen diskutieren zentrale Entwicklungslinien und Zukunftsaufgaben des Grundschulsports sowie des organisierten und informellen Kindersports.

This book explores the ways in which linguistic variation and complex social practices interact toward the formation of male interactional identities in a sports club in Dublin, illustrating the affordances of studying sporting contexts in contributing to advancing sociolinguistic theory.Adopting a participant-informed ethnographic approach, the book examines both the social interactional contexts within the club and the sociopragmatic and sociophonetic features which contribute to the different performances of masculinity in and outside the club. The volume focuses particularly on the linguistic analysis of humor and its multifunctional uses as a means of establishing solidarity and social ties but also aggression, competitiveness, and status within the social world of this club as well as similar such clubs across Ireland. The book's unique approach is intended to complement and build on existing sociolinguistic studies looking at linguistic variation in groups by supporting quantitative data with ethnographically informed insights to look at social meaning in interaction from micro-, meso-, and macro-levels.This book will be of particular interesting to graduate students and scholars in sociolinguistics, language, gender, and sexuality, and language and identity.

Did you know that SL Benfica is one of the most decorated soccer clubs in Europe? The team has won 78 major trophies. Learn more exciting facts about this fascinating soccer club in SL Benfica, an Inside Professional Soccer book.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 On January 23, 1959, the group of ten skiers spent the day at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk. They were all members of the UPI Sports Club and were frantically packing their rucksacks and getting their equipment ready. They were anticipating a fun trip to Mount Otorten, but their plans were suddenly thrown into disarray when Igor Dyatlov was killed in a car accident. #2 The group of ten skiers spent the day at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk on January 23, 1959. They were all members of the UPI Sports Club, and they were anticipating a fun trip to Mount Otorten. However, their plans were thrown into disarray when Igor Dyatlov was killed in a car accident. #3 The group of ten skiers spent the day at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk on January 23, 1959. They were members of the UPI Sports Club, and they were anticipating a fun trip to Mount Otorten. However, their plans were thrown into disarray when Igor Dyatlov was killed in a car accident. #4 On Jan. 23, 1959, the group of ten skiers spent the day at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk. They were members of the UPI Sports Club, and they were anticipating a fun trip to Mount Otorten. However, their plans were thrown into disarray when Igor Dyatlov was killed in a car accident.

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world—and how that era is now endingFC Barcelona is not just the world's highest grossing sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organizations on the planet. At last count, it had approximately 214 million social media followers, more than any other sports club except Real Madrid CF—and by one earlier measure, more than all thirty-two NFL teams combined. It has more in common with multinational megacompanies like Netflix or small nation-states than it does with most soccer teams. No wonder its motto is “More than a club.” But it was not always so. In the past three decades, Barcelona went from a regional team to a global powerhouse, becoming a model of sustained excellence and beautiful soccer, and a consistent winner of championships. Simon Kuper unravels exactly how this transformation took place, paying special attention to the club's two biggest stars, Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi, who is arguably the greatest soccer player of all time. Messi joined Barça at age thirteen and, more than anyone, has been the engine and standard-bearer of Barcelona's glory. But his era is coming to an end—and with it, a once-in-a-lifetime golden run. This book charts Barça's rise and fall. Like many world-beating organizations, FC Barcelona closely guards its secrets, granting few outsiders access to the Camp Nou, its legendary home stadium. But after decades of writing about the sport and the club, Kuper was given access to the inner sanctum and the people behind the scenes who strive daily to keep Barcelona at the top. Erudite, personal, and capturing all the latest upheavals, his portrait of this incredible institution goes beyond soccer to understand FC Barcelona as a unique social, cultural, and political phenomenon.

Dieses Buch bietet eine praxisorientierte Anleitung für maßgeschneiderte Marketing- und Vertriebsstrategien, insbesondere für innovative Startups. Eine Gemeinsamkeit vieler erfolgloser Startups ist, dass sie trotz vielversprechender Produkt- oder Dienstleistungsideen nicht genügend zahlende Kunden gewinnen konnten. Wer als Gründer:in diese Aufgabe nicht lösen kann, wird scheitern.Spannende Einblicke: Das gesammelte Praxiswissen hat der Autor aus eigener jahrelanger Erfahrung und in mehr als 100 Podcast-Interviews mit Gründer:innen innovativer, wachstums- und technologieorientierter Startups gewonnen. Mit über 40 Fallbeispielen zeigt das Buch, wie erfolgreiche Startups – darunter Blinkist, FlixBus und Urban Sports Club – Marketing, Vertrieb und Kundengewinnung in den frühen Anfangsphasen bewältigt haben.Erkenntnisse aus der Praxis: Laut dem Deutschen Startup Monitor sind Vertrieb und Kundengewinnung die größte Herausforderung, Standard-Weisheiten sind wenig hilfreich. Es kommt vielmehr darauf an, die Besonderheiten jedes Startups zu berücksichtigen, es braucht maßgeschneiderte Lösungen. Angefangen von Direktvertrieb und Social-Media-Marketing über PR & Storytelling bis hin zu Suchmaschinen-, Content-Marketing und Crowdfunding: Es werden zwölf Kanäle näher beleuchtet, die für die meisten Startups am besten funktioniert haben.Für wen? Das Werk richtet sich an Gründer:innen und Startup-Interessierte, die sich den komplexen Fragen im Bereich Marketing und Vertrieb für innovative Produkte und Dienstleistungen stellen möchten. Auch Professor:innen, Studierende und Berater:innen können profitieren.Los geht's! Neben der Vermittlung essenzieller Grundlagen bietet das Buch konkrete Hilfestellungen bei der Entwicklung eigener Strategien und unterstützt beim Mix der erfolgversprechendsten Marketing- und Vertriebskanäle. Weiterhin sollen wertvolle Handlungsempfehlungen, Arbeitsblätter und Checklisten Gründer:innen dabei helfen, selbst loszulegen und erste eigene Verkäufe zu generieren.

In an era of buyouts by consortia and sovereign wealth funds, the relationship between football clubs and their fan communities has never been under such strain. Examining models of football club ownership and how they clash with fan ideals, Contradictions in Fan Culture and Club Ownership in Contemporary English Football considers the fan – or at least, some idealised, all-encompassing image of the fan – as the underlying foundation for the ideological structures of football. Grounded in discussions of class, chapters tackle the dynamic by which football organisations, as global businesses, often operate in ways contrary to the perceived ‘essence'or values of the sports club at the heart of their operation. Providing insight into different notions of football club ownership, specifically the Public Limited Company (PLC), the billionaire's ‘plaything,'the sportswashing project, the ‘remodel'and asset stripping, the authors raise significant issues and dilemmas faced by football club fandoms. Does the unifying entity that holds a significant place in the hearts and minds of individuals and communities even exist anymore? Showcasing a robust conceptual model primed for use in future studies, this work offers a close analysis of the culture of the fast-moving football club ownership world, football fandom and consumption, and what it might mean for the future of the sport.

Welcome to Playtown, where the Local Area Builders are planning places to have fun in their community. In this cheerfully designed volume, young community members suggest new facilities that would improve their neighborhood. Readers follow along, considering what a park, playground, sports club, and more add to their area. They also practice map skills and learn community-centered vocabulary as the town grows. A final activity suggests that readers create a map of places to play in their own community. This entertaining book with accessible language and fun illustrations is a great companion to the early elementary social studies curriculum.

The community of Learnville needs new places for its inhabitants to—you guessed it—learn, and readers of this entertaining and informative book are on the planning board! They'll follow along as young community members work with the Local Area Builders to create different places to learn, including a music school, a sports club, and more. They'll discover what happens in these facilities and consider how they're a valuable part of communities. A final activity asks readers to make a map of their own community with the locations of places to learn nearest to them.

Community or supporter/fan-ownership of football (soccer) clubs is well-established at high levels in Germany (the Premier Division Bundesliga) and Spain (notably, FC Barcelona) but is unusual in the UK. Similarly, fan-owned US sports teams are unusual at high levels, with a few exceptions. Exeter City Football Club has been fan-owned since 2003, and as such has been much cited as a possible template for expanded fan governance. This book examines control by the Supporters'Trust by means of critical analysis of key events. It draws on the recollections of those who have been involved at various times in its organisation over the 20 years of its existence. The book seeks to examine why, when other Clubs previously in fan ownership have failed, or changed their ownership/management methods, Exeter City Trust has achieved its relative longevity. It will be of interest to business and sports researchers, and sports club managers and owners, worldwide.

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 John Roberts, the future Chief Justice of the United States, had a clear plan for his life at age 13. He wanted to attend an elite boarding school in Indiana. The school had been created by wealthy businessmen who wanted an academy in the tradition of the elite boarding schools of the East Coast but with a lay Roman Catholic character. #2 The first draft lottery was held on July 11, 1863, at a provost marshal's office on New York City's East Side. Mobs roamed the city, setting fires to the homes of black families and white abolitionists. #3 In May 1889, an unprecedented rainstorm soaked the valley, breaking an earthen dam that had been built fourteen miles upstream of the city. The dam had created a lake for an exclusive sports club frequented by the region's wealthy industrialists. When it broke, Johnstown was crushed by a wall of water with a force as powerful as the Mississippi River. #4 Jack and Rosemary Roberts's first child, Kathy, was born in October 1953. They had a son in January 1955. Rosemary was more ambitious than her husband, and she pushed him to advance at Bethlehem Steel. She was excited about her son's academic achievements.