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Action and experience in collective sports

The purpose of this article is to understand the constitution of the collective experience of playing sport games as football, basketball, volleyball, handball, among others. Such experience is understood as determined by the course of the collective action required and permitted by the form of the challenge created by those games. Characteristics such as the creation of goals to be achieved against another team, under the logic of one and same collective action subjected to the logic of the game, lead and organize the entire course of the experience of the players involved, bringing about a unique collective experience, commonly portrayed by practitioners as exciting and overwhelming. What characterizes such experience? How is it provided by such games? What is its basic structure? These are some of the fundamental questions dealt with by this article.

Phenomenology; Game; Sport; Experience; Practice


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