Leighton Thompson

Theme: Benefits of Sports

Topic: Different ways in which success can be achieved through football
Explanation:
To investigate the different ways in which football can be beneficial and how success could be
attained from pursuing football. Different persons who achieved some form of success in football
were used as data sources to show in what way have they been successful thus far in football.

Secondary Sources
PIECE 1
Author: Jeremy Schaap
Title: Lionel Messi Success Story
Copyright Date: May 18. 2013
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Name of Publisher: Successstory

PIECE 2
Author: Leighton Levy
Title: Jamaican Youngsters Join Ajax
Copyright Date: January 12, 2012
Place of Publication: Jamaica
Name of Publisher: The Gleaner

Challenges:
Difficulty in finding persons who achieved success in football to conduct interview,
hence there was a small sample size. As a result less data than what was wanted was
available so results were limited.
Hard to find mutual times to construct interview as both interviewees had a busy schedule
but this was eventually resolved by planning a specific time for the interview

 Challenge in covering a wide geographic area; researcher wasnt able to conduct

interview with persons out of his area because of lack of connection. As a result the data
source was confined to only one area.
Background Sources:
- Piece 1 Successtory is seen as a reliable source as it specializes in this area as this
company covers numerous success stories of different sports persons.
- Also the source has no reason to be bias as it was not covering an opinionated by topic,
they were simply relaying facts received from the interview conducted so this adds to the
validity and reliability.
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Piece 2 is has a high validity and reliability as the author specializes in this field. He has
done several sport interviews and frequently writes on sports occurrences happening
currently.
The source reliability is also high as The Gleaner is an established publication company
which have been around for a very long time, from 1834.

Data Sources
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Small sample size as only two persons were interview, hence a variety of responses could
not be attained and this lowers the validity and reliability.
The interviewees were from the same geographical area as they were two boys.
The sampling method used to get the data sources was convenience sampling and this
could have affected the reliability and validity as the sources are not representative of the
success achieved by the average footballer.
Also the researcher and interviewees had previous relationships so rapport was already
built.

Medium
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The interviews were done face to face.

Researcher was present in the interview to offer clarification and this increases the
validity and reliability of the information.
Also the interview facilitates follow up questions so extra information could be attained
and this allowed the researcher to get a full understanding of how success was achieved
and this increases the validity and reliability.

Context
-One interview was at the persons home and the other before school in the morning.
-Interview at the persons home is more valid and reliable as the person was in their place of
comfort and free from distractions and did not have to rush.
- One before school, the validity and reliability could be decreased as the interviewee had limited
time so questions were answered faster and enough time could not be given to formulate the best
response.

Summary: Success can be achieved through football in various ways. One way in which
football can provide success is that football is a career so persons who pursue it can become
successful as football provides a job and with this job comes financial benefit. This was shown
by the background sources who were paid for playing football by their respective clubs.
As discovered by the interviews conducted, the interviewees are examples of how football can
also provide success in the form of opportunities such as providing scholarships to colleges or
universities.
Also based on one of the interviewee, football also made the person able to represent his country
internationally and this is a form of success.

Conclusion: Success can be achieved through football in various ways.