Spatial analysis and methods of cartographic representation of youth football in Bihor County

Abstract

This paper analyzes, from a spatial point of view, the places in Bihor County where we have sports associations, private clubs, small teams of children and juniors, where children and young people who have not yet reached the age of majority work. Among the research methods used and applied in carrying out this paper we mention: observation method, analytical method, the statistical-mathematical method and the method of graphic and cartographic representation and the basic tool is represented in the cartographic modeling by the ArcGis program. The Bihor football map includes 55 clubs, of which 12 have only activity with junior teams. The total number of clubs with junior teams is 31 and which totals 84 junior teams. A number of 24 clubs with senior teams 55.8% (out of 43) have no activity with junior teams. Most clubs that have junior activity are in Oradea 16, followed by Salonta 3, the rest of the localities having only one club. These clubs are distributed in 23 localities. Only 19 clubs with activity in the senior teams also have groups of children registered in official competitions. Through this study we aimed to improve the cartographic aspect the representation of the sports phenomenon in general and the football one in particular in order to show the importance of the cartographic product in the qualitative and quantitative spatial analysis, in the analytical and synthetic one.