Pipe dream or closed shop? Experiencing the Champions League from the sidelines

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI:10.1080/14660970.2023.2194515

A. Brand, A. Niemann, R. Weber

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The article explores how Austrian football fans, in a country outside the “Big-five” leagues and (semi-)peripheral to European top football, relate to the European elite competition. Our research builds on interviews with fans of Sturm Graz and Wacker Innsbruck. These clubs represent two different fan milieus at the sidelines of the Champions League: one for which European-level competition has been accessible at qualification stages, and one club with a remarkable European history, for which these competitions are currently far out of reach. Our analysis reveals that the positioning of the Austrian league detaches fans from the Champions League. The main division, however, is not along clubs, nor is there an overarching “Austrian” perspective of marginalization. Rather, we find a dividing line between those who affirmatively consider the Champions League a pipe dream and those who criticize its closed shop-structure and reject it as over-commercialized reality of “modern football”.

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白日梦还是关门大吉?在场边体验欧冠

本文探讨了奥地利球迷在“五大”联赛之外和欧洲顶级足球(半)外围的国家如何与欧洲精英比赛联系起来。我们的研究基于对斯特姆格拉茨队和瓦克因斯布鲁克队球迷的采访。在欧冠赛场外，这些俱乐部代表着两种不同的球迷群体:一种是在资格赛阶段就有机会参加欧洲级别的比赛，另一种是在欧洲有着辉煌历史的俱乐部，目前这些比赛对他们来说遥不可及。我们的分析表明，奥地利联赛的定位使球迷脱离了冠军联赛。然而，主要的分歧并不在于俱乐部，也不存在一个包罗万象的“奥地利”边缘化观点。相反，我们发现在那些肯定地认为欧洲冠军联赛是白日梦的人和那些批评其封闭的商店结构并将其视为过度商业化的“现代足球”现实的人之间存在着一条分界线。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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