This research is about the potential of life long sport participation in sport clubs. The aim of the research project is to study sport participants and sport organization representatives’ experiences and interactions of participating in or organizing sport adjusted to people on various physical literacy pathways through life.
Swedish Sports Confederation’s Strategy 2025 states, “More and more people see sport as a training for life, and both sport federations and sport clubs talk about the right to physical literacy for all” (Riksidrottsförbundet, 2018). Adjusting sport activities to more than a few is a fundamental basis for the strategy.
However, it is one thing to adopt a vision for promoting lifelong physical activity, and it is another to qualitatively design sport practices that adjust to people’s, women's and men's, various levels of physical literacy during a lifespan. The research will examine the phenomenon of Walking-football (Gå-fotboll), a new adjusted sport for all offered by sport clubs in Sweden for the first time in 2018.
The research will be conducted during 2019-2020 and is funded by Swedish Research Council for Sport Science, Swedish Sport Confederation and Umeå School of Sports Sciences.