RT Journal Article T1 Sportspersonship orientation in the training process of young football players in different training contexts A1 Ortega Vila, Gema A1 Robles Rodríguez, José A1 Abad Robles, Manuel Tomás A1 Ortega Toro, Enrique A1 Alarcón López, Francisco A1 Giménez Fuentes-Guerra, Francisco Javier AB Football plays a fundamental role in the lives of the boys and girls who play it and it canbecome an invaluable educational instrument. However, for introduction to football to betruly educational, it needs to be carefully planned and guided; otherwise, it may encouragenegative and undesirable behaviour from a moral and ethical point of view. That way, manyauthors claim that a careful and deliberate initiation to football is necessary for the promotionof sportspersonship to become a reality. The goal of this research is to analyse the evolution of sportspersonship orientation in thesocial sports football schools of Fundacio´n Real Madrid and in association football clubs.For this purpose, the Multidimensional Sportspersonship Orientations Scale is used. Theresearch involves 1509 male and female youth football players aged between 8 and 16years (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´nReal Madrid obtain high values in sportspersonship orientation. Moreover, these valuesremain 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 levelsof sportspersonship orientation throughout the player’s training process PB Public Library of Science SN 1932-6203 (electrónico) YR 2024 FD 2024-10 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24460 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24460 LA eng NO Ortega Vila, G., Robles Rodríguez, J., Abad Robles, M. T., Ortega Toro, E., Alarcón López, F., & Fuentes-Guerra, F. J. G. (2024). Sportspersonship orientation in the training process of young football players in different training contexts. In J. Gardasevic (Ed.), PLOS ONE (Vol. 19, Issue 10, p. e0312167). Public Library of Science (PLoS). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312167 NO Real Madrid Foundation. The funders hadno role in study design, data collection andanalysis, decision to publish, or preparation of themanuscript DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 30 may 2026