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

Authors : Angela Magnanini

Pages : 229-238

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Publication Date : 2017-12-22

Article Type : Research

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