TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campbell,Paul
TI  - Education, retirement and career transitions for 'Black' ex-professional footballers: 'from being idolised to stacking shelves' 
T2  - Emerald Points
SN  - 9781838670405
AV  - GV647 .C36 2020
U1  - 796.01  23
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Athletes, Black
KW  - Retirement
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Soccer players
KW  - Sports & Recreation
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ball games
KW  - bicssc
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references; Chapter one : Introduction -- Chapter two : Working-class soccer schoolboys, race and education in England -- Chapter three : Football professionals, qualifications and post-playing career preparations -- Chapter four : Retirement, training and transitions into non-sport work -- Chapter five : Conclusion
N2  - Drawing on a combination of interviews and auto-ethnographic data, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footballers provides a case-study of 16 'black' British male professional footballers' preparedness and experiences of retirement and transition from careers as professional athletes to mainstream work. The author examines these men's sporting experiences during three life phases: As professional schoolboy footballers; as professionals; and during retirement and career transition to mainstream careers. In doing so, this book expands on how these men's experiences of and preparedness for retirement and career transition are influenced and often complicated by the cultures, practices, and expectations that shaped the professional game when they were players. It also offers an account of the ways these experiences were complicated by issues of race. Researchers, students, sports enthusiasts and anyone interested in questions of race, masculinity, employment, retirement, mental health, and professional sport in late modern Britain will find Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footballers useful, informative and engaging
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/9781838670382
ER  -