{"title":"Designing talent development in football – a document analysis of the Norwegian academy classification model","authors":"Ann-Kristin Nilsen, Glenn Øvrevik Kjerland, Vegard Fusche Moe","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2313970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2313970","url":null,"abstract":"Norwegian football has recently witnessed a surge in the professionalization of talent management, marked by the launch of the Academy Classification Model (ACM) in 2017. The model aims to enhance ...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950176","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 : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2313965
Pascal Delwit
{"title":"Kicking off passion: the birth and rise of football in Belgium (1880-1914)","authors":"Pascal Delwit","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2313965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2313965","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the early advent and evolution of football in Belgium until WWI, highlighting the crucial role played by British expatriates and the influence of Catholic and State schools.It ...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139751151","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 : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2302488
Ângela Monteiro, Paulo Reis Mourão
{"title":"Why are stadiums empty in Portugal? An examination of costs associated with being a fan of Premier League football in Portugal","authors":"Ângela Monteiro, Paulo Reis Mourão","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2302488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2302488","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of our work was to understand the costs that football fans of Portugal’s Premier League incur and whether those costs are detrimental to their stadium attendance. To that end, a questionna...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139678533","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 : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2305139
Esa Mangeloja, Mihaly Szeróvay
{"title":"Does competitive balance explain stadium attendance? Evidence from Finnish men’s football","authors":"Esa Mangeloja, Mihaly Szeróvay","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2305139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2305139","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we examine the Finnish football league attendance characteristics. Sport leagues usually claim that outcome uncertainty is necessary to maintain interest among fans. In this paper,...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139578992","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 : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2303851
Richie Bain, Kieran James
{"title":"When stakeholder opinions diverge: a case study of Aberdeen Football Club’s proposed relocation to Westhill","authors":"Richie Bain, Kieran James","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2303851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2303851","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to investigate the impact of Aberdeen Football Club’s proposed relocation from Pittodrie Stadium to the small town of Westhill, seven miles from the city-centre, and to a...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579276","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 : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2303850
Julien Clénet
{"title":"No Foreign Game: association football and the making of Irish identities","authors":"Julien Clénet","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2024.2303850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2024.2303850","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Soccer & Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139411784","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 : 2024-01-03DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2023.2301204
Ellis Cashmore, Kevin Dixon
{"title":"Why football violence made a comeback in continental Europe but spared England","authors":"Ellis Cashmore, Kevin Dixon","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2301204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2301204","url":null,"abstract":"Football violence has returned to continental Europe but not to England. This commentary explores reasons for the different experiences. It is argued that, after the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, ...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375772","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 : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2023.2293050
Jamie Wheaton
{"title":"The marketing of season tickets in the English Football League during a cost-of-living crisis: the importance of financial sustainability and the role of economic, social and cultural capital","authors":"Jamie Wheaton","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2293050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2293050","url":null,"abstract":"English Football League (EFL) clubs rely on season ticket (ST) sales as an annual revenue source. ST sales during the cost-of-living crisis in 2022 theoretically took on more importance given clubs...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138826130","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 : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2023.2288835
Kevin Dixon, Jamie Cleland, Ellis Cashmore
{"title":"Banter and the rise of LGBTQ+ awareness in football cultures: a bourdieusian approach","authors":"Kevin Dixon, Jamie Cleland, Ellis Cashmore","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2288835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2288835","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from a 2020 survey of 2,663 football fans, this paper explores their perspectives on LGBTQ+ language at UK men's football matches. Results revealed that 95 percent of participants expres...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496261","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 : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2023.2284891
Luis Mañas-Viniegra, Ana I. Veloso, Patricia Núñez-Gómez
{"title":"The influence of football celebrity endorsements on the attention paid to advertising: eye tracker research related to amateur online poker players in Portugal","authors":"Luis Mañas-Viniegra, Ana I. Veloso, Patricia Núñez-Gómez","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2284891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2284891","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this research is to determine how football stars influence the attention paid to online poker advertising and whether a corresponding nationality might influence the perception of audien...","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496260","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}