Classification of sports families according to group games in the city of Mosul

Abstract

The aim of the research is to provide informational documentation about sports families in the city of Mosul in terms of their numbers, members, roles, institutions or bodies that cared for them or worked in them, in overlap with the following main classifications: mixed families). Families famous for football, basketball, hand and volleyball games. The researchers used the descriptive method in the manner of the survey study, and the research community included sports families in the city of Mosul whose members, male and female players, or both, played one or more collective games, and for the purpose of obtaining information that achieves the research objectives, personal interviews with the families’ players were relied upon. sports from the research community or with those who live with them, as well as the written messages sent by them. The researchers reached several conclusions, the most important of which are: The city of Mosul included (24) sports families whose members practiced more than one team game, including (18) families of players, one family of female players, and (5) mixed families. The presence of (16) sports families who became famous and specialized in the game (football), the number of their players and their prominence concentrated in the Mosul Club, and the governmental and private social institutions in the city of Mosul played an effective role in developing their sports levels. The emergence of (11) families who became famous and specialized in the game (basketball), with a clear interest on the part of Mosul Club in preparing them, and some governmental social institutions played a distinguished role in their development. The emergence of (6) sports families who became famous and specialized in the game (handball), and the Al-Fatwa Club took over their numbers, and the Directorate of Education of Nineveh and the University of Mosul played an influential role in developing their sports abilities. The presence of (4) sports families who became famous and specialized in the game (volleyball), and they gained more interest in their players from the Al-Fatwa Club than the Mosul Club. Some governmental social institutions also played an active role in their development.