축구의 매력에 빠진 그녀들: 대학여자축구 동아리 참여자 경험을 중심으로

This study is focusing on the participation experience of college women students from the recent noticeable growth of college women’s soccer club. To elaborate, this study aims to look into the pleasures of college women students participating in college women’s soccer club and analyze the meaning of it. In order to solve this research question, in-depth interview and non-participant observation were conducted against 13 participants who had been actively participating college women soccer club for more than 3 years. The result of this study is as followed. First, the college women students participating in college women’s soccer club were experiencing pleasure from the attributes of soccer. Second, the participants felt pleasure of soccer from the feeling of bonding, that is ‘us’, from soccer. Third, the participants experienced pleasure of soccer from playing soccer ‘among women’. Considering that previous studies of women soccer were mostly analyzed by leisure restriction, such result shows that this study offers multilateral view of women soccer.