Kickin It Documentary Analysis

The documentary “Kickin it” was about the homeless world cup. Which is about The homeless world cup. The year this was filmed, the cup was held in south africa. We followed the teams and learned the back stories of the players on different teams. How they had come to be in the position they were in, how football was able to save them and then how they were after the games and the progress they had made. Every team in the ternimat was made up of players who were homeless. This was there escape. This was there way of doing something different and better for themselves. Playing football.

A sports sociologist looks at sports as social phenomena. They are focasued on socio-cultural strucrers, patterns and organizations and people that make groups that are involved with sport. A sports sociologist can look at this movie and see and study how they were able to get so many people from around the world, into this compation. All the different countries, and all of the homeless players, coming
They help them over come obsicals. They basically can help make the athlete the best athlete they can be. In this documentary, They could be able to look at each player, and see how there home life has effected them and shaped the mint the athlete they are now. Help them continue to over come there struggles and show them they can continue to get better and better. For example then oy on the american team that had anger issues. A sports psychologist could be able to see that and help him over come that. The psychologist would need to take into consideration tha each personons story is difffert. That he cannot approach each athlete in this competition wit hthe same way. Where they are from, how they group how, how they ggot to where they ar today. All of these are factors as to how the psychologist needs to a pprach each player. They can help the player better themselves. An because the best player they could