Motives which lead to choose football as a form of active leisure

Football is the most professionally organized sport that is the most popular in the world, and at the moment is recognized as an active form of leisure by all the people all around the world. Football is the most popular game in the world, not only between the boy, but also between the girls, which has been propogated by more than 265 million people. The question is: what motives foster these people to choose football as an active form of leisure? Object – which lead to choose football as a form of active leisure. Methods – scientific literature analysis, questioning survey. Goal – identify motives which lead to choose football as a form of active leisure. Tasks: 1. Reveal conception of leisure, forms and types. 2. Provide reasons, motivation theories, and their concepts. 3. Review projects of football as active leisure in Lithuania 4. Research and compare lithuanians and foreigners motives which lead to choose football as a form of active leisure. Conclusions: Lithuanians and foreigners motives which lead to choose football as a form of active leisure were compared and researched. It was determined that foreigners' motivation to choose football is greater. It has been researched that football gives more pleasure to foreigners than to Lithuanians. For them soccer is a better way to spend their leisure. Football teaches Lithuanians more self-discipline, responsibility and team work than foreigners. For foreigners, football is a family tradition, and they are getting more influence from their friends to choose football and it is ashame for them not to play football any more, unlike Lithuanians. Foreigners play soccer because of the motive to please those who expect them to play better than the Lithuanians want. According to LFF grassroots football presentation (2013), I can conclude that in 2012 there were 52670 participants in grassroots football events. This number grows annually