Abstract Sports Performance and achievements have been the avenue through which great nations of the world exhibit their supremacy over others through effective sports development strategy. Effective sports development requires variables like sports policy, sports personnel, sports funding, sports program, sports facilities and sponsorship. The extent to what these variables are met shall no doubt affect the effectiveness of any sports development. Two distinguishing features of the Nigeria sports system are its central organization and its employment for specific socio-political objectives. It is against this background that these papers will x-ray the organization and management of sports and sports development in the enhanced role of sports and in contrast with developed nations' sports system and management.

Modern sport and physical activity programs are clearly community driven as is the reality the world over, but in Nigeria stake holders are yet to come to terms and appreciate this fact. For any community to have hope for a brighter future, it must have a sound community based sport programs that is put in place. The United Nations declared 1985 as the international youth year and Nigeria observed every 27 th day of May every year as the youth day, which was a pointer to the importance of this group and a testimony to the world wide concern over youths. There is therefore, an urgent need for a change of attitude, if these Nigerian communities and youths are to provide the communities and humanity, as a whole with quality human resources. Sport help them grow towards positive development, good relationships with others and get them involved in their communities. This paper has explored and ascertain the growing concerned of youth restiveness that bedeviled Nigerian communities much of this concerned where based on social vices and health related issues, such as increasing rate of delinquent, deviate behaviors rising crime rate and the known involvement of local communities in policy formulation and implementation of sport that will help in stamping all deviant behaviors, crime and extremism.

Sport development in Nigeria has been a major concern to all sports stakeholders. The means of promoting it has also underscored the need for different organizations' and institutions interested in sports to contribute towards achieving the purpose. Sports contribute to personal development and the acquisition of fundamental social skills. Psychosocial variables encompass two categories of variables which include psychological attributes like hostility, depression and hopelessness which exist at the individual level, and are likely to be a result of the process of socialization. The second category is more structural in nature, work conditions for example. These two categories work in synergy as observable from social support at work and as a function of both work conditions and personal social interaction skills. Examples of psychosocial factors include leadership, incentives and work environment. More so, environmental factors such as sports policy, sports personnel and funding have been a bane among other relevant factors facing stakeholders of private tertiary institutions in particular that need to be addressed towards the all-important sports development. The possible potentials of psychosocial and environmental influence as means of redressing sport underdevelopment and provision of necessary information to sports stakeholders in private tertiary institution would go a long way to addressing the inadequacy.

Summary In this paper we evaluated the basic viewpoints on the mutual relations between contemporary sport and society. Sport is a global social phenomenon which is determined by a variety of different processes, including: the fast development of the industrial society and capital, an increase in leisure time, the development of a liberal democracy and the media. A special feature in these relations is the overall globalization process in today’s world. The basic structure of this paper is made up of two functional parts. In the first part we indicate the dominant theoretical-methodological paradigms in studying sport in social sciences, especially sociology: functionalism, conflict theory in society, interpretive and postmodern theory. In the second part of the paper we analyze the dialectics of contemporary relations between sport and society, where special attention is dedicated to the distribution of social power between sport, capital and the media at the local and global leve...

The science behind athletic performance has progressed significantly with the advancement of technology and research of sports. The current review examines the Socio-cultural factors on sports performance. Addressing Religion, Gender, Environment, and Culture contribute to a better understanding of the wide variety of factors that may influence sports performance. This study therefore investigated Socio-cultural factors as an influence of sports performance among public and private secondary schools in Ago-iwoye Ogun State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study, 100 students were selected: 60 from public schools and 40 from private schools. Data were collected using a self-developed questionnaire. Data were also analysed using simple arithmetic mean and grand mean. The results shows that Religion, Gender, Environment, Culture has significant impact on sports performance of students. Based on the results, it was recommended that students, coaches, parents, government should be enlightened and educated on the impact of socio-cultural factors that could have an effect on sports performance. Also secondary school students should be encouraged on how to cope with socio-cultural factors before, during and after sports competition.