ABSTRACT
Sport is a vital part of young people's lifestyles and youth culture. According to Giddens [1] the notion of lifestyle takes on a particular significance in modern life. “The more tradition loses its hold, and the more daily life is reconstructed in terms of the dialectical interplay of the local and the global, the more individuals are forced to negotiate lifestyle choices among a diversity of options.” (lbid). This means that lifestyle choices are increasingly important in the constitution of self-identity. The German sociologist Thomas Ziehe, emphasizes with particular reference to the situation of young people, that identity development is becoming more complicated as traditional structures in society are being disrupted, but also more open as the individuals are, to a greater extent, able to create their own lifestyles and identitities [2].
