Career Transitions in the J-League: Theories and Practices of Career Support for Professional Fpptball Players  

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Takahashi, Kiyoshi ; Shigeno, Kozaburo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 8 no. 4 (2011), page 67-82.
Topik: Career Transitions; Professional Footbal Players; Career

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This paper examines the issue of career transitions with reference to football players in the Japanese professional football league (J-League) as well as the support systems in the case of J-League Career Support Center (CSC). According to the career transition theory, many changes take place as a result of events and non-events in a variety of realms, including roles, interpersonal relations, daily life, and ways of thinking. To cope with these changes, an individual needs to evaluate usable resources in the framework of 4S system: situation, self, support, and strategy. The Career Support Center, established within the J-League in 2002 for providing official support for the second careers, has focused on services for finding employment and education opportunities to both active players and retiring players. For example, the center has held joint try-outs for players who are out of the club’s roster to find new teams, and has provided consultation for career in non-football occupations and higher education. The problems faced by retiring players can be classified into two categories. First is the psychological problem that losing their status as a professional footballer feels to them as though losing their own identity. Second is the technical problem that not only are they unable to imagine their long life after retirement, but also that they lack preparation for planning retirement financially, educationally, and vocationally. No matter how much assistance may be given, nothing will happen if the player himself is unwilling to endeavor for new career. It is important to get the ball rolling by himself.

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