A Passion for soccer

Soccer equals inequalities. Everyone shares the same enthusiasm. Socioeconomic class differences do not matter. And in some cases, like Belgium and Spain, soccer unifies multi-ethnic or multi-national states. What really matter is being the supporter of a winning soccer team and waiting for seeing thier team to make history. During matches, people take to the streets with their flags, singing their national anthems, so they are full of nationalism. Couples stop arguing, politicians forget battles, no worries about the future, because during 90 minutes their coutry becomes the greatest all over the World. Problems can wait another 90 minutes to be solved. The biggest problem of nationalism is forgetting soccer that is just a game and it is a game to help to fell proud of your nation. The ugly face of nationalism come up in this case which is called football hooliganism that is seen in many countries.

This paper will going to argue World Cup that encourages and promotes nationalism and xenophobia.

Nationalism and football are borned togeth

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Acoording to Brown (1998) , “ If national identity is the most ‘developed’ identity of modernity, football is its most popular sport/spectacle” (p. Berlusconi saw soccer one of the most important issue in their country to represent their culture. None could dream those pictures in somewhere else. Players can exalt their own nation, so soccer is defined as the national game ( Brown, 1998 ). However, being nationalist was not a bad thing in this championship because there were no extreme nationalist people or hooligans as in the past Cups (http://www. None could escape from the idea of nationalism and it was difficult to be anti-nationalist during the matches by painting faces, holding flags and singing national anthems. Even if someone reject loving nationalism because of its complex definition, becomes nationalist during World Cups. So, during World Cup championships, the sociological definition of nationalism breaks down and nationalism becomes a feeling of superiority through sporting victories. All this people’s organisations were generated by political causes. The difference between the past World Cups and the 2002 one, was that nationalism existed only in people’s heart and all countries were together to celebrate any success. Important songs which were written by Irish and English people are like their national anthems. All the newspapers wrote about England-Germany matches, “Two World War and One World Cup” because of their point of view about a nation which can express itself in two ways- war and sport. After the World Cup 1990, candidates of the Forza Italia were called gli azzurri (the Blues), because the uniforms of the Italian national team had blue color. There was also a war- like match between England and Argentina in France World Cup 98 ( Brown, 1998 ; Ford, 2001).

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