Soccer & SocietyPub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332087
Kevin Daniel Rozo
{"title":"Eurocentric globalization of football. Coloniality, consumption, social distinction and identities of transnational fans in Latin America","authors":"Kevin Daniel Rozo","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332087","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the Eurocentric Globalization of Football (EGF), that is, the concentration of capital, broadcasts, players and coaches from around the world in the most powerful football leagu...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140325970","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":"Victory for Africa or the Arab world? Moroccan nationalism, Arab exceptionalism, pan-African solidarity and digital fandom during the 2022 FIFA World Cup","authors":"Lyton Ncube, Chengeto Pauline Mkwendi, Amos Batisayi","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332092","url":null,"abstract":"Football serves as a fetish for war, replaying past conflicts and sometimes setting off new ones. Deploying social identities theory and dramaturgy theory, we follow up on this assertion to explore...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299030","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":"Referees in French professional football: from amateurs towards semi-professionals (1955-1995)","authors":"Alexandre Joly, Olivier Chovaux, Jean-Nicolas Renaud","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332180","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to better understand how French refereeing and its elite-level referees accomplished the transition from amateur to semi-professional during the second half of the twentiet...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299287","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}
Soccer & SocietyPub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2333487
Brendon Bhagwandeen, Asad Mohammed, Isaac Dialsingh
{"title":"Investigating the influence of fans on home advantage outcomes in association football across Europe","authors":"Brendon Bhagwandeen, Asad Mohammed, Isaac Dialsingh","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2333487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2333487","url":null,"abstract":"Fan support has long been stated as one of the major contributors to the home advantage which football teams enjoy across Europe; whereby fans motivate the home team to increase performance levels,...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299149","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}
Soccer & SocietyPub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332088
Avipsu Halder
{"title":"East Bengal-Mohun Bagan football fans and Indian politics: parochialism and nationalism in simultaneity?","authors":"Avipsu Halder","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332088","url":null,"abstract":"The footballing rivalry between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan in Kolkata, India, explicates important facets of the politics of nation-building and identity formation through sport. The sporting nati...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299147","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}
Soccer & SocietyPub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332098
Radosław Kossakowski
{"title":"The end of terraces? Fans’ identity in times of crisis in Poland","authors":"Radosław Kossakowski","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332098","url":null,"abstract":"The main assumption of the text is that, in Poland, small fan groups are facing a threat to their existence, and many of them are functioning in an evident crisis. Based on secondary data, the main...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299032","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}
Soccer & SocietyPub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332214
Kevin Michael A. De Guzman
{"title":"This is not Soccer!!!: Blue Lock’s poststructuralist approach to soccer","authors":"Kevin Michael A. De Guzman","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332214","url":null,"abstract":"Like every particle in the universe encompassing the atomic structure of reality, soccer was a product of an entropic cycle whereby its inception in 1893 resulted from a historical hodgepodge of ga...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299141","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}
Soccer & SocietyPub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332090
Jacco van Sterkenburg, Max Walder
{"title":"Race and whiteness in football talk amongst English fans: audience receptions of televised national team coverage","authors":"Jacco van Sterkenburg, Max Walder","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332090","url":null,"abstract":"Televised football is still one of the main ways in which football fans consume football. Earlier studies into audience receptions of televised football often used focus group interviews with footb...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299031","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}
Soccer & SocietyPub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332205
Bernat López
{"title":"Recognition, Ma Non Troppo: how FIFA dribbled the Spanish football schism during the Civil war","authors":"Bernat López","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332205","url":null,"abstract":"One of the facets of the Spanish Civil War’s sportive dimensions which has received relatively ample attention by scholars is the attitude of FIFA in the battle between de republican and the Franco...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299042","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}
Soccer & SocietyPub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332099
Pablo Alabarces, Juan Branz, José Garriga Zucal
{"title":"Why win a World Cup? Thirty-six years of football and nation(alisms) in Argentina","authors":"Pablo Alabarces, Juan Branz, José Garriga Zucal","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2332099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2332099","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the categories established to study the connections between national identities and football in Latin America. It focuses particularly on that of the ‘public arena’, inspired ...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203941","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}