ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we provide our concluding thoughts on professional players, their process of migration, and how they maintained community embeddedness to understand its relevance on their economic rationality to society. Reflection on players’ economic behaviour regarding their socioeconomic investment initiatives explained the important meaning of giving back behaviour to society. We also identified how players mobilised human, material and social network resources using crafty approaches and strategies to achieve their professional aspirations and ambitions. That promoted their high social status and social recognition in the communities. Understanding the players’ behaviour, we settled on economic sociology approaches to explain their action in a holistic manner rather than relying on individual causes of actions. Other studies, theories and models helped to find coherence between the achievement of professional status meaning to an African player and its social environment. All these supported new discoveries and provided contributions to African football and its society.
