Şirin, Erkan Faruk; Erdoğan, Ali; Öztaş, Mehmet

The aim of this research is to reveal the correlation between sports team eFANgelism and the spectator, fan and fanatic attitudes of football Spectators. Besiktas, Galatasaray Fenerbahce, Trabzonspor fans, this goal was tested on a total of 362 football spectators gathered from four separate main masses: Galatasaray and Trabzonspor. The "football fan fanaticism scale “was used to determine the level of Football Spectators (spectators, fans, fanatics) and the” sports team evangelism scale “was used to determine fan behavior mobilized by the heated dissemination of Football Spectators' beliefs about the team and team-centered interactions. In the analysis of the data, a normality test was performed and it was determined that the data was distributed normally and parametric tests were used. According to the fan fanaticism scale, 34.8% (126) were fanaticism, 35.4% (128) were fans and 29.8% were spectators (sports fans); sports team eFANgelism of football spectators was found to be significantly higher than spectators and fans. In addition, a positive correlation was found between sports team eFANngelism and the lower dimensions of football fan fanaticism (tendency to think/act towards violence and institutional belonging). Based on this, it can be said that eFANgelists, who are fanatics and fans, promote the teams they are supporters of without any expectations, ensuring the spread of team-centered interactions.

Ölmez, Cengiz; Aydemir, Burakhan; Şar, Halit; Öztaş, Mehmet

Objective: COVID-19 negatively affected sports environment as well as many other aspects of life. In this process, while all sports stakeholders focused on managing the process with the most economical and effective solutions, athletes at this point had to give a new direction to their training that they had to continue at home. In this context, the research was carried out to collect information on the training processes that elite taekwondo athletes had to continue at home due to the COVID-19 outbreak and their performance status, and to perform analyses. Material and Methods: The research was carried out in a mixed pattern, in which the quantitative and qualitative processes were active, with the volunteer participation of 28 elite taekwondo athletes. Within the scope of the research, the training processes which had to be performed at home, the performance status, and the opinions and thoughts of the athletes on the process were obtained. Descriptive and content analysis techniques were used for the arrangement, analysis and presentation of the data. SPSS 25 statistical software was used to analyze the quantitative data. Results: Findings obtained from the study showed that the athletes mostly create a sports environment in their homes, receive remote coach support, perform 3-7 trainings a week and perform training an average of 7.47 hours a week, as well as they have some physical, motoric and mental problems. Conclusion: As a result, the elite athletes were found to determine a strategy to protect their current status rather than training to improve their performance.