Sandra Miranda, C. Gouveia, Branco Di Fátima, Ana Cristina Antunes
{"title":"Hate speech on social media: behaviour of Portuguese football fans on Facebook","authors":"Sandra Miranda, C. Gouveia, Branco Di Fátima, Ana Cristina Antunes","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2230452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2230452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128325066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabriele Morganti, A. Kelly, Gennaro Apollaro, L. Pantanella, M. Esposito, Alberto Grossi, B. Ruscello
{"title":"All roads lead to Rome? Exploring birthplace effects and the ‘southern question’ in Italian soccer","authors":"Gabriele Morganti, A. Kelly, Gennaro Apollaro, L. Pantanella, M. Esposito, Alberto Grossi, B. Ruscello","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2226077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2226077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121052500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Class, capital and social mobility: Israeli football players in the Egged Transport Cooperative","authors":"Moshe Levy, Udi Carmi","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2217091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2217091","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During Israel’s first three decades, Israeli football adopted the amateurism principle which prohibited football players from receiving any monetary or other compensation for playing football. Despite this prohibition, many top football players obtained sought-after jobs at Egged, Israel’s leading transport cooperative, along with shares in the cooperative. Using a Bourdieusian theoretical framework, this paper examines Israeli football players’ ability, most of whom came from the working or lower middle classes, to use the types of capital they amassed to improve their economic and social positions.","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114344407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam S. Beissel, Verity Postlethwaite, A. Grainger, Julie E. Brice
{"title":"A new hope? FIFA 2.0, FIFA Women’s Football Strategy, and event bidding for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World CupTM","authors":"Adam S. Beissel, Verity Postlethwaite, A. Grainger, Julie E. Brice","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2214512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2214512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129436617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Montserrat Martín, Gil Pla-Campas, Òscar Coromina, S. Tejedor
{"title":"“You are the best… but can you twerk?” How twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA women’s champions league final in a postfeminist context","authors":"Montserrat Martín, Gil Pla-Campas, Òscar Coromina, S. Tejedor","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2211535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2211535","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses how fans engage on Twitter with the 22 players in the starting line up during the week of the 2019 UEFA Women’s Champions League final. It explores fans’ entangled representations of female professional footballers on Twitter from a postfeminist sensibility. Out of 200 tweets posted by the players during the day of the final and the week after, the research focuses on the 1468 fans replies to the 20 most engaged players’ tweets. To facilitate this, we developed an analysis instrument called the 3Fs Spiral, which helps to disentangle the complex meanings of the fans’ replies on Twitter. Results highlight the fans’ entangled representations and the continuous flow of disruption and reinforcement of the gender order that emerge from them in a set of tweets. The decentralised nature of Twitter has the potential to slowly promote the change of dominant gender narratives and frames in female football.","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121023882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defining Maradonian studies","authors":"P. Brescia, M. Paz","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2212505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2212505","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The following is an excerpt from the volume Diego Maradona: A Socio-Cultural Study, edited by Pablo Brescia and Mariano Paz (London and New York: Routledge, 2023, 265 pp). This is the first book in English to explore the figure of Diego Maradona as an object of academic study, with the aim of introducing and theorising an emerging field that could be defined as ‘Maradonian studies.’ One of the most iconic football players of all time, Maradona is much more than a sporting legend. He has been read as an emancipatory political figure, a secular saint, a symbol of subalternity and, by others, an anti-hero (cheat, addict, opportunist). This paper includes extracts from the Introduction and Chapter 1 (co-written by Brescia and Paz), discussing the relevance of Maradona today, and his links to Argentinean politics and media. The volume contains individual chapters by different experts on a gamut of areas: Maradona as portrayed in the British press; Maradona and his links to Mexico, Spain, and Italy; the representation of Maradona in literature, cinema, music, and biography; Maradona approached from feminist perspectives; and the phenomenon of the Church of Maradona (among other topics).","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122596065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regeneration through Sport: Football, Sport, and Cultural Modernization in Spain, 1890-1920","authors":"Celia Valiente","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2211491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2211491","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128094981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transnational football fandom in Hong Kong: attitudes towards commercialization and local supporters","authors":"C. Lee","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2198230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2198230","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although Asia is an important market for elite European men’s professional football clubs, scholarly attention about transnational supporters from Asia is limited. Based on qualitative interviews and an online survey with Hong Kong-based fans of European clubs, this study shows that the research participants do not regard themselves as less authentic supporters than local fans. However, a hierarchy of fans exists in their imagination since they regard the perceived loyalty to the club and associated practices of local fans should be emulated. While the Hong Kong-based transnational fans may want to become like the local supporters, being beneficiaries of the globalization of the game and the different immediate social networks they are embedded in help explain why they are less critical of the commercialization of the game than the local supporters and their different understandings or feelings of rivalry. The findings can also contribute to debates concerning cultural globalization.","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131458811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Brexits on Twitter: English sporting identity and Euro 2016 as a metaphor for a divided Britain","authors":"Colm Kearns, G. Sinclair, Theo Lynn, P. Rosati","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2192487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2192487","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT England’s ‘shock’ exit from the Euro 2016 Football Championship and the UK electorate’s decision to (Br)exit from the EU occurred almost simultaneously, providing an interesting lens through which to examine unfolding tensions in the UK and its component identities – all the more so given the presence of two of the three other component countries of the UK, Wales and Northern Ireland, at the Championship. Our analysis of 34,324 original tweets featuring both the hashtag #Euro2016 and #Brexit shows a clear tendency to conflate British and English identities in the context of Brexit, a conflation coloured by largely negative characteristics. We pay particular attention to how recurring themes concerning leadership, accountability and immigration are articulated in the context of both sporting and political events. In addition, we examine the significance of the structural logic of social media in these discussions of the sport-nation nexus, with reference to vortextuality and mediatization.","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"102 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114004325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Scissoring? I can do that!’ Play, alternative place-making and nested sexual normativities in Dutch women’s amateur football","authors":"Manon Klarenaar, A. Vollebergh","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2192485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2192485","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article addresses the way in which female players of “traditional” amateur football clubs in the Netherlands manage to create their team as “open” and “inclusive”. Drawing on the notion of playfulness and linguistic perspectives on humour, we show that women players engage in shared sexual joking and embodied performances that centre around gendered and sexual stereotypes and norms. In contrast to a reading of the persistence of norms as limiting anti-normative agency, a focus on play shifts attention to the active recontextualisation of norms in localized interaction and their “nested” quality – thus suggesting that norms are always imbricated in their alternative. It is through the subtle recoding of gendered and sexual norms and stereotypes Independent scholar accomplished in interactional forms of verbal and spatial play that team members recreate traditional club spaces, albeit transiently, into alternative sportscapes nested within otherwise strongly (hetero)normative spaces.","PeriodicalId":403673,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122850886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}