| Summary: | This research aimed to find and understand social interaction type, meaning and
psychological dynamics among professional football player. This research used
ethnophenomenology as a research method. The subjects were professional football
player of Persiba Bantul Football Club and selected using purposive sampling and snow
ball technique. Validity was tested using intersubjective validity.
The result shows that social interaction in football was very useful for athletes as
individual and as a group, which is the team where the player was part of. As an
individual, players feel comfortable and affect to their performance in games. As a
groups health social interaction affect perception of players to their group norms.
Positive social interaction among players will create a unity among players and affect in
the cohesion of teams and finally affect to the main team purpose, which is winning in
every games or competition.
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