WATER POLO AS FAMILLY TRADITION – PATERNS OF SPORT’S PRACTICING IN FAMILIES OF SERBIAN WATER POLO REPRESENTATIVES
Journal Title: Sport Mont - Year 2011, Vol 0, Issue 28
Abstract
It is known that many successful athletes come from "sport's family " in which one or more members professionally and / or over a longer period of time is /was engaged in sports. There are even examples of true "sport' s dynasty" in which several generations more or less successfully involved in the same sport.Tthe aim of this survey was to check whether the Serbian water polo players come from families in which „family sports culture“ is present, ie. families in which exept of an representative some other member or members are/were playing some kind of sport, and as consequence of that, players have tried large number of sports before the finale choice of water polo. At the sample of 182 water polo serbian representatives of both sex we found out that 93 % of players have at least one member of familiy who is/was participate/d in sport (the most frequent case – father 74 %) and that there were at least two sort of sport being represented in families exept of waterpolo (most frequently water polo, basketball and handball). Fathers of the representatives were most frequently engaged in socker, handball and basketball, mothers of players handball, basketball and athletics, sisters od athletes tennis and volleyball, and brothers of athletes water polo and basketball. Water polo representatives, beside of waterpolo had tried most frequently swimming and basketball. So, it might be conclude that playing of water polo really represents kind of family tradition and that sport’s culture in these families in high level.
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Jelena Ilić, Dragoljub Višnjić
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