In the process of a person's lifelong development, we conquer and perfect the social skills that we see relating to other people in communicating with them. In the beginning, a family plays a crucial role in learning social skills, and later on, the social network we create also plays a major role in learning new social skills. We acquire skills through education and leisure activities. The aim of the thesis is to explore the social skills that young people have acquired through their involvement in basketball, football or handball. And once accepted, the skills can be seen in other areas of everyday life. In the theoretical part I briefly present the social development in which a person shows his personality, his self-image. I describe the importance of sport in athlete's life by emphasizing the importance of leisure activities among young people. The importance of good sporting qualities and the characteristics of the individual who is a member of the team is crucial. I look at sport through the eyes of a social worker, defining sport as a potential source of strength and pointing out what the social worker has to pay attention to and what needs to be considered when working with young people. Finally, I present the individual social skills that are important for the social development of humans. In the empirical part, I conduct a questionnaire and an interview. A sample of 500 people took part in the survey and 6 athletes - a girl and a boy from different sports areas - took part in the interview. I analyze what sport has given them, how they coordinate school and sport, what skills they have learned through sport, how they get along in a team, what sport means to them, whether there are differences between girls and boys and between pupils and students on the topics mentioned above. I find that students have acquired more social skills through sport compared to pupils. Girls, on the other hand, see sport more as a form of informal learning than boys. The majority of respondents believe that sport has given them a lot - both friendships and the ability to communicate with other people. They have also acquired organizational and work skills.
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