The Organization of Football in Cyprus: History and Politics

N. Lekakis, Dimitris Gargalianos
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This paper employs the history and politics of football looking at discussions about Cyprus’ national identity, the relationship between the Greek-Cypriot state and its self-declared Turkish-Cypriot counterpart, and the possibility of reunification. It explores these issues from both sides of the divide, something rarely undertaken in Cyprus, and within a wider European perspective, by comparing it briefly with the modern football histories of Ireland, Spain and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Football and its inherent developments reflect not only the political rivalries in the world of Greek-Cypriot football, but also the encounters between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots. The history of Cypriot football has no similar precedent in the selected European space. In Ireland, the peace process has not ended historic civil society divisions, while football agents with opposing political ideologies across the Greek and Turkish divide in Cyprus have been able to overcome their differences, political elites on one side of the border have prevented unification. In Spain’s Catalonia, while the football-fed movement for independence, yet to materialize, remains subject to approval by Spain’s institutions, the independence of the de facto Turkish-Cypriot state would require the approval of the governments of the Republic of Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and Britain. Finally, while FIFA and UEFA have successfully dictated the terms for the final admission of Bosnia & Herzegovina’s football Federation into their membership, they have failed to repeat this achievement in the Cypriot case.
塞浦路斯足球组织:历史和政治
本文利用足球的历史和政治来探讨塞浦路斯的民族认同,希腊-塞浦路斯国家与自封的土耳其-塞浦路斯国家之间的关系,以及统一的可能性。通过与爱尔兰、西班牙和波黑的现代足球历史进行简单的比较,本书从两方面探讨了这些问题,这在塞浦路斯是很少发生的,同时也从更广阔的欧洲视角探讨了这些问题。足球及其内在发展不仅反映了希族塞人足球世界中的政治竞争,而且也反映了希族塞人和土族塞人之间的相遇。塞浦路斯足球的历史在选定的欧洲空间中没有类似的先例。在爱尔兰,和平进程并没有结束历史上公民社会的分裂,而塞浦路斯希腊和土耳其的政治意识形态截然不同的足球经纪人却能够克服他们的分歧,边境一侧的政治精英阻止了统一。在西班牙的加泰罗尼亚,虽然足球推动的独立运动尚未实现,但仍需得到西班牙机构的批准,而事实上的土耳其-塞浦路斯国家的独立将需要得到塞浦路斯共和国、希腊、土耳其和英国政府的批准。最后,虽然国际足联和欧足联已经成功地决定了波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那足球联合会最终被接纳为其成员的条件,但他们未能在塞浦路斯的情况下重复这一成就。
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