Adesão, permanência e barreiras percebidas na prática do futebol feminino

Abstract

The present study aims to identify the motivational aspects that promote the adhesion, permanence, and the obstacles noticed by women in the practice of amateur seven-a-side football. The sample consisted in seventeen women of a youth group from a municipality on the western region of Rio Grande do Sul. As a data collection instrument, a questionnaire about the sociodemographic characterization (ABEP, 2016), “Motivation Inventory of Regular Practice of Physical and Sports Activity”, developed and validated by Balbinotti (2010), and questionnaire about motivations for adhesion and perceived obstacles, were used. Data were analyzed through the descriptive statistic and content analysis (BARDIN, 2011). The results showed that the athletes are distributed in five economic extracts (A, B1, B2, C1 and C2) and had as predominant motivational aspect to the soccer practice, the pleasure dimension, followed by the stress control. The main influence on the adhesion to the soccer was the Scholar Physical Education and the obstacles to the practice of women’s soccer were little evidences, restricted to physical space, financial situation, double shift and prejudices related to cultural machismo. It’s concluded that the women’s soccer athletes are mainly motivated by the individual pleasure of each member, where the stress control and sociability have a great influence on the participation of these girls in the sport and that the family and friends’ support is very important for the group and becomes daily incentive to their permanence in the soccer world.