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Given its popularity, it’s not surprising that football is of interest to scientific disciplines such as physiology, biomechanics or sociology.
In 20 years, the number (per year) of scientific publications has multiplied by 55. However, this growth is not necessarily accompanied by consideration of these scientific productions in the staffs of professional teams. Why is this so? Our research deals with this enigma by qualifying it and trying to explain it. Studies like that of Opar et al. (2012) show that despite verified and justified evidence of the use of the Nordic hamstring exercise (as a means of preventing hamstrings), only 16.7% of the clubs questioned use it totally or partially.
Faced with various findings of this type, we decided to question the circulation of scientific knowledge devoted to football from scientific journals to practitioners in the field. The objective of our work is in a way to improve the popularization and use of scientific knowledge by the technical staff of professional football clubs, without modifying the original scientific results. To do this, we first developed a base of scientific knowledge stabilized over numerous articles (N= 317). We then intend to carry out field surveys in clubs, with technicians (questionnaires and ethnographic observations in training centers in France).
This communication will allow us to come back to our first results allowing us to identify the factors which facilitate, and limit or even prevent, the circulation and the putting into practice of some scientific knowledge which is nevertheless useful to football.
Beyond this description, we wish to use the notion of boundary object to interpret our results (Star and Griesemer, 1989). This will be useful for discovering artifacts that facilitate, prevent or disguise knowledge. But also to analyze how passages are made or not made entirely: indeed it is likely that knowledge does not pass and that it is more simply replaced by information (Stehr and Ufer, 2010). The use of the notion of border-object does not necessarily lead to the discovery of this object, but will orient the interpretation of the collected discourses of practitioners (and their practices) to potentially identify translations.
