High performance sport and vocational training ; Sport de haut niveau et formation : l'exemple du Football-Club de Sochaux-Montbéliard
In human sciences field, there are two ways to study football : amateur football and professionnal, which got a widely media coverage. Seen like two worlds split, the coming up to professional from amateur football achieved by a handful of young players is rarely studied. Accounts of football star life's, often written in an hagiographic style, does not mention fondations of the sport entry or the years past in specialized centres of formation. This work aim, by sociological approaches, to the signature of a contract. Inside of this process, the time spent in instructive football clubs has to be studied in details. This work, conceived in an interactionist way, focuses on interindividual relationship which contributes on the access to high-level career. With this point of view, the Lionceaux school, in Sochaux, bring a good exampleof the way to train candidate, because of its youth politics and its good results. Our data comes from three kind of sources : the questionnaires sent to French football clubs, the watching of matches and lifetime in centers, and the interviews of players and coaches. It permits us to detailed candidates' careers, who succeed or not in the purchase of becoming a high-level footballer. Indeed, each year, from about forty players, only one or two will sign a contact, whereas the other will have to return to their lives, away from stadiums. Beyond individual career, we would see here the whole dynamics and maintenance of high-level football clubs. ; Dans les travaux en sciences humaines, le football est abordé selon deux axes : le football amateur et celui, plus médiatisé, des professionnels.Imaginés comme des monde imperméables, il est rarement fait mention du passage de l'un à l'autre que réalisent une poignée de jeunes passionnés. Présentés le plus souvent de manière hagiographique, les récits de vie des vedettes du ballon rond ne font pas mention des fondements de l'engagement sportif et des années passées en apprentissage dans les pôles d'excellence. La recherche présentée ici vise à ...