In the last century, Football has become a major player in cultural, social, economic and, more importantly, political and international exchanges. As this sport affects beliefs, attitudes and practices, and as one of the factors contributing to the formation of internal and external policies and relationships, it can carry out numerous social, economic, cultural and diplomatic functions and has made a lot of change in countries. As a result, sports and sport activities have gone beyond physical activity or entertainment, and have achieved various social, cultural, economic, political and international goals and functions. Analysis of theories and research found that among the various phenomena, Football as one of the examples of relations between countries has been able to place a special place among the programs of developing countries to express their own society demands to the world. The political, social, economic, and cultural functions of Football, and its effects and effects on the level of interactions between states and others, international actors, have the potential to be theorized and conceptualized. Based on the findings of this study, the specifics and functions of Football diplomacy can be seen as strengthening national identity as a means of development, peace and reconciliation tools, a tool for altruism and improving relations, a soft power tool, a ٣ ٠ tool for convergence and dialogue in the national and international dimension of countries. This article is based on descriptive-analytical method and the method of data collection is based on documentary and library and comparative study.

In this article, the nature of violence in Football has been surveyed. Based on the conceptual framework of collective behavior, the researcher has studied the Football fans and spectators. They are formless, spontaneous, and extremely excited masses. In this article, Football has also been considered as a suitable social context for exhausting the feelings and excitements which have been suppressed in modem society.

Objective: Due to increasing importance of social activities, the object of this research was deep study of Football social responsibility. Methodology: method of research was Grounded Theory with Glaser approach. for this purpose, with purposed and snowball sampling, identified 13 experts in Football social issues that was conducted 13 deep interviews to achieve theoretical saturation. Data analized through coding in Glaser approach with constant comparison in the coding process include substantive and theoretical. for explaining the research model, around the core category was used model the 6Cs family in Glaser approach. Results: 192 codes were obtained that were categerized in 29 concepts. the results are shown promoting social and caltural values, social justice, cultural modeling, promoting volunteering culture, planning approach, lawfulness, moral contextualization, philanthropy activities, environmentalism are one of most important explanatory factors of Football social responsibility. Conclusion: experts in this research, more emphasis on cultural-social development, education of social values and ethical issues. sports managers by identifying various aspects of social responsibility, such as cultural affairs، Environmental measures and Humanitarian activities and reviewing its effects on society, can understand better importance of social responsibility of your plans and respect community needs and spectators with better ways.

Purpose: Every sport has a unique profile of injury and risk of injury. In recent years, there have been numerous attempts at conducting injury prevention trials for specific injuries or for injuries within specific sports to provide evidence useful to the sports medicine and sport community. Football has been a focus of a number of randomized injury prevention trials.Methods: MEDLINE was searched with the first order keywords of "injury prevention" and "sport". This list was restricted to "clinical trial" or "randomized controlled trial" which had been conducted on children and adults whose goal was preventing common Football injuries. Our objective was to find studies with an exercise-based training program, thus projects that used mechanical interventions were excluded.Results: A structured, generalized warm-up has been shown to be effective at preventing common injuries in Football, reducing injuries by about one-third. Conclusion: The huge participation numbers in the worldwide family of Football would suggest that any reduction in injury should have a public health impact. Professionals in sports medicine need to promote injury prevention programs that have been shown to be effective.

In this article, Football has been considered and studied as a social cultural modernization context. From the researchers point of view, Football is a prevalent context in which it has been presented and supported by the new social forces quite voluntarily. Today Football has been considered not only as a fair play but also as a life context. At the end, the researcher has tried to demonstrate what this new status means, on the basis of a Weberian approach, or what the nature of this new event is.

This article examines the relation between Football and national identity. After a definition of identity and its aspects, there is a discussion about Football's effect on national belongings in Iran and other countries. These effects could be seen in local identities, too. Interaction between Football and political system, conflicts between national and global identities in Football players also typology of this matter have been discussed in this article.

Objective: In the following study, the Determination and Ranking of Iran’ s Football talent criteria from Iranian trainers of Asian Football confederation(AFC) eye sight is analyzed. Methodology: (the following study is of descriptive-analytic type. The dostdari and colleagues’ s (1391) questionnaire which has been confirmed by physical education experts was used to obtain data. The internal validity of the questionnaires was evaluated by Cronbach's alpha method (82. 0). The population of the research was 122 of Iranian trainers of Asian Football Federation Which were intended purpose and the total number. To describe the variables, descriptive statistic method and to test the research hypothesis in meaningful level (p< 0. 05), inferential statistics (Freidman test) was applied. Results: It showed in Football talent, in priority, skill-individual technique criteria ( 34 / 5 ), skill-individual tactics (4/93), Anthropometric criteria (3/30), psychological criteria (3/19), physical-motion criterion (2/72) and society criterion (1/43) are considered to be important respectively. In skill-individual technique criterion (ball controlling) (3/68), in skill-individual tactics (Moves without the ball) (4/18), in anthropometric criteria (Stature) (4/84), in psychological criterion (deciding and selecting) (3/82), in physical-motion criteria (speed) (4/12) and sociological criterion (team work motivation) (3/89) are as the most important obtained parameters. Conclusion: Coaches and administrators designing Football scouting for talent to find and select talented players pay attention to all the indices; because paying attention to these criteria and sub-criteria multiplies the success of talent plans.

Football contracts in the domestic arena and, to some extent, in the international stage suffer from a plethora of gaps and imperfections. According to pronouncements by FIFA, every Football contract is valid only upon the possession of 13 specific headings. In contrast, the regulations of Iran’ s Football federation lacks any particular minimum criteria for Football contracts. This paper, while examining the minimum criteria of Football contracts under the regulations of FIFA and Iran’ s Football federation, deals with the legal status of player’ s internal contracts with clubs, particularly when they conflict with the official agreements of the players registered in Football federation and reaches the conclusion that in case of conflict between the contents of internal contracts and the formal agreements registered in the Football federation, the latter prevails. Also, it comes up with the findings that codification of a minimum standards for Football contracts, the unification of the contents of such agreements, modernization of regulations applicable in the Football field, and the removal of their ambiguities, are necessary and unavoidable.

Background and Purpose One of the key pillars of the Football industry is its fans, who are considered the most important stakeholders, as their presence makes this industry unique and sets it apart from others (Gutierrez, 2019). Sports fans are individuals who have strong emotional connections to their team, athlete, or favorite sport (Kim et al., 2020). This psychological bond between fans and a sports team or athlete is referred to as team identity (Theodorakis et al., 2016). It is important to recognize that team identity is not fixed,it is flexible and can change over time (Delia, 2019). The concept of threats to team identity is a relatively new area of research in sports management, which has recently garnered increasing attention from scholars studying sports consumer behavior. In this context, the present study aims to identify the factors that pose a threat to the team identity of Football fans. Methodology Given that identity threats trigger deep psychological processes (Mansfield et al., 2020) and considering the lack of comprehensive research on the threat to Football fans' team identity, a qualitative research method was deemed suitable for this study. The research was conducted using content analysis, which is recognized as one of the most effective methods in qualitative research (Braun & Clarke, 2006). The study's statistical population comprised the fans of the Esteghlal Tehran Football team who followed the team's official Instagram page. The sampling method used was purposive, where a call for participation was made from April 4 to September 12, 1400, in the comments section of all posts on the official Instagram page of the Esteghlal team...