Perception about career terminition among female athletes

Each transition in elite sport career can bring relief, depression, joy or other similar psychological feelings, or a combination of some of them, depending on one›s individual perception of the situation. All athletes are expected to leave the field of high sport performance and to find new challenges and a new way of life, one day. So, termination of sport career can be described as an inevitable event that will happen in the life of every athlete sooner or later. Athletes end their sports career for several reasons, including age, injury, the decline of their sports performance, gradual changes in the status of the sport, the problems with the sports community and institutions, or for the sake of some other interests. This is where there is no difference between male and female athletes. Factors that come from the sports environment are the same or similar nature. However, the basic difference in the reasons for termination of sports career male athletes compared to female athletes, make a slightly different reasons, which are not directly related to the sport. Usually it comes to issues of a personal nature, problems within the family, the ability to choose a new profession and as the most important and common, natural need to form their own families and establishing the role of the mother.