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Introduction
Soccer fans who have access to the World Wide Web are well served by
a super abundance of websites that deliver results, video clips, player
news and other information on the game. For the researcher or the coach,
there are many websites that contain sport sciences information or fulltext
articles. The main research databases, SPORTDiscus, SPONET and PubMed
have a great number of citations to sport sciences research.
The one problem that persists for the website enquirer or researcher
centers on the differences between North American terminology and the
rest of the world. Most countries use the word “football”,
which in the US refers to American gridiron football or Canadian gridiron
football. The savvy Internet user can get around this dilemma, however.
The listings below are selected from a great number of directory websites
and databases. The focus is on the professional associations, regional
soccer organizations and where to begin the research process. 1. Databases for Research SPORTDiscus
http://www.sirc.ca/products/sportdiscus.cfm This international database indexes thousands of journals, books, reports and AV. The basic term used as a descriptor is “soccer”. Football refers to American gridiron football in this database. A search of the database (as of the February 2006
update) using the descriptor soccer finds 18,808 records.
If a researcher is looking for periodical articles on the sport sciences,
medical or psychological aspects there are 3324 records for advanced level
resources with 2502 intermediate level.
SPONET
http://www.sponet.de/ A product of the University of Leipzig’s Institute für Angewandte Trainingwissenschaft, this database leads the researcher to scientific fulltext resources. The descriptor fussball finds over 400 references, with the term soccer, over 300. Soccer/Football Website Directories
Listed in this section are the key, well organized soccer website listings:
Google Directory>Sports>Soccer
http://www.google.com/Top/Sports/Soccer/ Latin American Football.com
http://www.latinamericanfootball.com/ MEGASOCCER – Soccer Search Engine
(UK)
http://www.megasoccer.com/ Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org/Sports/Soccer/ The Soccer-Corner (Netherlands)
http://www.soccer-corner.com/ Soccer-sites.com – the soccer only
website directory (UK)
http://www.soccer-sites.com/ One of the most established soccer website link directory. Weltfussball (Germany)
http://www.weltfussball.com/ Yahoo Directory >Recreation > Sports
> Soccer
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Soccer/ Professional and Sport Specific Associations and Federations
International Society of Football Scholars
http://www.footballstudies.com/ Publishes the journal Football Studies (1998 to date). Articles encompass the economics, social sciences, historical aspects of soccer and related “football” sports. Individual Membership $39 AUD. Note that the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (with permission) has provided free access to the fulltext of Football Studies from 1998-2003. (http://www.aafla.org/ ) Association of Football Statisticians (UK)
http://www.11v11.co.uk/ Football Research Unit, University of Liverpool
(UK)
http://www.liv.ac.uk/footballindustry/ Football Governance Research Centre at
Birkbeck College (UK)
http://www.football-research.org/ Centre for the Sociology of Sport, University
of Leicester
http://www.le.ac.uk/so/css/ This Centre was formed by the merger of the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research and the Centre for Research into Sport and Society International Football Institute (University
of Central Lancashire and the National Football Museum)
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/host/ifi/index.htm International Federations and Regional Organizations
Along with news, event results and biographies, most of these soccer
international and regional bodies have fulltext technical papers, coaching
information and major competition “recap” reports.
Fédération Internationale
de Football Association (FIFA)
http://www.fifa.com/en/index.html AFC: Asian Football Confederation
http://www.the-acf.com/English/ CAF: Confederation Africaine de Football
http://www.cafonline.com/ CONCACAF: Confederation of North, Central
American and Caribbean Association Football
http://www.concacaf.com/ CONMEBOL: Confederación Sudamericana
de Fútbol
http://www.conmebol.com/ OFC: Oceania Football Confederation
http://www.oceaniafootball.com/ UEFA: Union of European Football Associations
http://www.uefa.com/index.html Coaching
Footy4kids (UK)
http://www.footy4kids.co.uk/ National Soccer Coaches Association of
America
http://www.nscaa.com/ SoccerCinics.com
http://soccerclinics.com/ A website under sponsored by the International Coaches Association, http://www.theica.com/ Soccer Coaching International
http://www.soccercoachinginternational.com/ In the Netherlands. SCI is a magazine the but website has a newsletter, discussion forum, links etc. Soccer Learning Systems, PO Box 5550, Pleasanton, Ca. 94566
http://www.soccervideos.com/index.html UEFA, Coaching & Coach Education http://www.uefa.com/uefa/KeyTopics/Kind=256/index.html
Additional Publications
Eliminating Racism from Football: a Report
Submitted to the (UK) Minister For Sport (1998)
http://www.mipc.mmu.ac.uk/docs/ftfracism.pdf Soccer and Society
ISSN 1466-0970, v1, 2000- Routledge, Taylor and Francis Journals, v. 19 Available on subscription in print and online from 2000 to date. http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/ World Soccer (the essential football magazine)
http://www.worldsoccer.com/ Subs 35-50 GBP depending on country, is available in a digital version (special software is needed) -- Plus many articles on soccer/football in journals such as Sportunterricht,
Sporting Traditions (see AAFLA website) and the various sports medicine
and science journals. Sources for Books/Videos/Software
Soccer Books Limited (UK)
http://www.soccer-books.co.uk/index2.htm Has DVDs, videos new and used books UK Footie (books, videos, dvds )
http://www.ukfootie.co.uk/ See Open Directory Project list of 8 software
companies and programs for soccer
http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Sports/Software/Soccer/ Contact:
Gretchen Ghent Librarian Emeritus The University of Calgary Law Library 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Gghent@ucalgary.ca ![]() http://www.icsspe.org/portal/index.php?w=1&z=5 |