2008 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 49-61
The purpose of this study was to clarify the career developing process on the elite Football Players in Korea high school, and their condition of ongoing career life and career orientation 212 elite high school players were chosen from 7 high school. The main results were as follows.
1) Most of the subject started a football when they were in elementary school. They decided their career as a football player by themselves. In addition their coach influenced their decision making.
2) The economic environment of their family is not high. It was guessed that the half of them (45.7%) played Football to improve their social status. This result supports a part of findings on accords with “Study of sports and Social mobility" in North American Sports Sociology.
3) They did not study as they were in the upper grades because they were devoted to football excessively. On the other hand, they were worring whether they continued to play football because they were required their academic background in the society. A conflict between football career and academic background is connected with the second carrier problem.
4) When they finished high school most of them chose to go to college first and then become the professional player.
5) They imagined that they continue associating with football in their future.
