Developing Sport in Local Communities

Developing Sport in Local Communities

Introduction

The study relates to sports in local communities, in particular, the programmes pertaining to development of sports in areas of economic and social deprivation generally have two key aims that are the development of communities through sport and the development of sport in communities. Moreover, the leisure and entertainment activities in communities have been touted as one of the aspect that will have higher growth in the coming years. In this context, the sports segment of community is important; besides this aspect, the sport provides great impact on social development and health of the population. From the assessment of the importance of sport, it can be understand that this activity is vital and serves as an imperative agent because it is capable of contributing to overcoming social and economic problems of local communities.

Discussion

The Development of Sport in Communities

The key objective of the sports development programmes is sporting inclusion. The desired sporting outcomes of these projects entail the following:

Removal of difficulties from participation in sports in the community among the target groups or general population.

Terms of opportunities to grow and to expand sporting expertise and skills.

Terms of prospects to move from recreational participation to excellence.

Support and training of managers.

Establishment of links between sports clubs, school and the community.

The importance of sport in local communities can be demonstrated in several ways, as, for example, the concern of governments to make sport compulsory wherever your action be felt, especially in education, from early childhood to university courses, the dedication by the daily press throughout the world, a large part of their time and space to sports news, the fierce competition between countries to host sporting events range international, and the efforts of many countries to disseminate new sports (Al-Zuaibir, 2011, 141-144).

Some aspects that highlight the importance of sport is that it allows approach and gathering of people enables disclosure of a better external image of countries as the most important events are seen by millions of people around the world, which can be used as an element of motivation traditional education and enables more people to interact with the environment. Moreover, in the social sphere, the sport in local communities has an academic function in the process of formation of individual, emphasizing discipline; respect for hierarchy and the rules of the game, solidarity, team spirit and other factors of human development. Development of sport in communities can be used as an instrument social redemption and has also been considered as solution to violence.

In the economic sphere, the development of sport in communities involves many financial resources that drives a large diversified industry and specializes in the production of sports equipment, uniforms, protective equipment and footwear. Development of sport in communities provides livelihood for thousands of people around the world because it is an activity which provides high job creation. The sports activities itself can provide economic returns, which no longer considered as spending and investment to be considered (Benedict, 2007, ...