The Football Workshop Wageningen in The Netherlands originated from a care farm where people with mild intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour spent time for day activities. Passionate about football, two social workers and a growing number of service users left the care farm to set up sheltered …

This chapter will be part of a monograph on social inclusion, the interface between leisure and work in relation to people with intellectual disabilities.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate coaches' views on developing leadership and shared leadership capacity in particular in competitive youth football. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative examination focusses on the leadership philosophy of ten male coaches at the sub-elite competitive …

The Johan Cruijff ArenA (JC ArenA) is a big events location in Amsterdam, where national and international football matches, concerts and music festivals take place for up to 68,000 visitors. The JC ArenA is already one of the most sustainable, multi-functional stadia in the world and is realizing even …

This thesis explores person re-identification in the football domain. BallJames generates tracking data by tracking football players during a match. When an occlusion happens between multiple players, BallJames loses track of the player. Person re-identification could solve this problem by comparing …

Sportgerelateerde hersenschuddingen zijn een epidemie binnen de contactsporten, met name binnen American football. De neurodegeneratieve ziekte Chronisch Traumatische Encefalopathie (CTE) wordt veroorzaakt door herhaaldelijk opgelopen hersenschuddingen. Met een toenemende incidentie van sportgerelateerde …

Sport injuries are most often caused by overstraining. Injuries not only have an impact on the quality of life of athletes but can also incur high costs to sports clubs, due to the players’ absence. The main goal is to have a tool, which can advise trainers to optimise training per individual athlete …

The Netherlands came late to 19th-century industrial revolution but when modernization occurred, it prompted an almost feverish cultural and social 'Anglomania'. Elite youngsters enthusiastically appropriated sports such as cricket and football, which were introduced and promoted by English native speaker …