Review of the reasons and motives of national sports heroes to enter the realm of politics in Iran

Politics is something inseparable from the exercise. It can be noted in regard to the entry into politics of Iran's national sport heroes. The purpose of this study is to Review of the reasons and motives of national sports heroes to enter the realm of politics in Iran. The method of this research was qualitative and quantitative. The research statistical sample is composed of 154 people which includes 120 activists from nationalize, 4 people of heroes which entered politics and 30 people of sports management professors from Tehran University who were selected to non-random targeted sampling methods and accessible. The measuring tools was a researcher made questionnaire that nominal and content validity was confirmed that the number of sports management faculties, and after modification and delete questions and confused options and In terms of the offered suggestions, the original questionnaire was formulate, that its reliability was calculated 0.78 for athletes entry causes and 0.78 for Intervention and facilitating factors by Cronbach's alpha test. After the collecting questionnaire, Data were analyzed using the software SPSS16 in descriptive and inferential level. The descriptive statistics were used to calculate the mean, standard deviation and frequencies and inferential statistics were used to determine the KS test for normality of the data and the Friedman test and ANOVA to compare nationalize point of view, professional athletes and masters. The results of research showed that the 39 of identified factors, Is a factor of 24 to enter and15 to the intervention of a facilitator. In ranking, gain of the higher post factor is the most and interest factor to decisions country is the lowest rating (P<0.05).