Problem Facing Palestinian Women Football: A case study of the issues pertaining to Palestinian women football and the experience of Korean women football development

Abstract

Problem Facing Palestinian Women Football: A case study of the issues pertaining to Palestinian women football and the experience of Korean women football development

Ihsan Abdallah Global Sport Management, Department of Physical Education The Graduate School Seoul National University

The study shows that the Palestinian women football progress faces problems regarding, ‎culture ‎stereotype, either from the people ‎or the admini-strational, financial issues results in keeping ‎Palestinian ‎women football in amateur status, in addition to ‎administrational ‎problems due to the lack of experience, along with ‎problems ‎result from the Israeli occupation as well technical ‎issues ‎that effecting performance of the player. All ‎problems work together in ‎disturbing the ‎sustainability and progress of Palestinian women football. Palestinian women football will stay in the game as long the status is changed from amateurs ‎to professional, as well working on the idea of abandoning football for marriage. The Korean women football study shows that increasing the amount of international ‎matches, preparing an experienced staff, maintain ‎focus of creating age groups ‎and ‎connecting with schools and universities, working with ‎individual ‎sponsorship as well increasing the governmental support for women football, and integrating the Palestinian community ‎will work on ‎solving progress problem of Palestinian women football. ‎

Keywords : Palestine, women, football, culture, problems, soccer , Korean Student Number: 2015-22346