@article{10272/24460,
year = {2024},
month = {10},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24460},
abstract = {Football plays a fundamental role in the lives of the boys and girls who play it and it can
become an invaluable educational instrument. However, for introduction to football to be
truly educational, it needs to be carefully planned and guided; otherwise, it may encourage
negative and undesirable behaviour from a moral and ethical point of view. That way, many
authors claim that a careful and deliberate initiation to football is necessary for the promotion
of sportspersonship to become a reality. The goal of this research is to analyse the evolution of sportspersonship orientation in the
social sports football schools of Fundacio´n Real Madrid and in association football clubs.
For this purpose, the Multidimensional Sportspersonship Orientations Scale is used. The
research involves 1509 male and female youth football players aged between 8 and 16
years (M = 10.9±2.2), of whom 952 belong to the social sports football schools of the Fundacio´n Real Madrid and 547 to association football clubs. 
The most outstanding results show that the players of the social sports schools of Fundacio´n
Real Madrid obtain high values in sportspersonship orientation. Moreover, these values
remain high in all categories, while they show a significant decrease in players from association football clubs. The social sports model of Fundacio´n Real Madrid can contribute to maintaining high levels
of sportspersonship orientation throughout the player’s training process},
organization = {Real Madrid Foundation. The funders had
no role in study design, data collection and
analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the
manuscript},
publisher = {Public Library of Science},
title = {Sportspersonship orientation in the training process of young football players in different training contexts},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0312167},
author = {Ortega Vila, Gema and Robles Rodríguez, José and Abad Robles, Manuel Tomás and Ortega Toro, Enrique and Alarcón López, Francisco and Giménez Fuentes-Guerra, Francisco Javier},
}