Lastly in 2002 came true, World Cup championship, has done for the first time in 1930 in Uruguay. Since 1930, many countries which have different living standarts, join the championships.
             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 together and live together. Nationalism is a feeling of faithfullness for your own country, it is a feeling of being better than other countries and being different in a good sense, than others. This movement was born in the second half of the eighteenth century ( J. Perry, 2000 ) ; (E. Perry, 2000).
             When people look at the history of the soccer, can easily see that soccer was born nearly in the same century with the nationalism. Acoording to Brown (1998) , " If national identity is the most 'developed' identity of modernity, football is its most popular sport/spectacle" (p. 160) . So, during World Cup championships, the sociological definition of nationalism breaks down and nationalism ...