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The following is a recreational football intervention implemented by Laurea University of Applied Sciences together with an international recreational football project. The presentation is based on the thesis “Factors influencing the motivation of seniors for exercise”, interviews with instructors and video material on the subject produced by the Finnish Football Association (Patova & Venäläinen, 2020).

The recreational football project is funded by the EU’s Erasmus Sport + fund. Laurea University of Applied Sciences coordinates the project and in addition to Finland, recreational football is played in England, Spain, France and Denmark (6-0! Recreational Football info, 2019; 6-0! Project info, 2019).

For the purposes of this study, a senior is defined as over 60 years of age, as the target group for f recreational football is 60+ years of age (6-0! Project info, 2019), although the official definition of an older person is over 65 years of age by physically loading the body (Terveyskylä, 2019).

The aim of the project is to promote recreational football activities aimed especially at the senior population through club activities and to produce a permanent, functional way of training for seniors (60+) in the spirit of recreational football (6-0! Project info, 2019). The second goal of the project is to create practical guidelines for people over the age of 60 to make playing football safe and effective. To achieve this, the project will produce material and guidance in five different languages, i.e. for each participating country ((6-0! Project info, 2019; 6-0! Recreational Football info, 2019).

The project began in the fall of 2018. In the spring of 2019, rules were agreed and exercises and schedules were planned. In the fall of 2019, playing recreational football began in all five countries. There were two groups, a training group and a control group. Both have 25 members. The internship was aimed at people over 60 (6-0! Project info, 2019). In the Finnish internship group, the age range was 65-80 years, because the target group of the project is seniors.