This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan
and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic …

Major international sporting competitions are complex phenomena in which the political and
economic interests of nation states, sporting organizations, the media and multinationals …

Cuando empecé a barajar la idea de escribir este libro en la primavera de 2008, la
selección española de fútbol era conocida fundamentalmente por sus fracasos. A diferencia …

The continuous growth of international sport events as media spectacles has magnified their
ability to project ideas of nationhood. In media coverage, the athletes/players are portrayed …

This article has been developed and updated from a paper delivered at the Grossbritannien-
Zentrum, Humboldt University at Berlin, June 2000. Traditionally, sport has been …

Understanding the social consequences of major soccer events is important for social
science researchers and policy-makers alike. On the one hand, socially integrative effects …

Football hooliganism is a subculture in which 'us-them'boundaries are constructed,
sharpened and contested both within and between participating groups. Applying Charles …

The aggregate of a sport team's fans may be viewed as a consumption community that
surrounds the team and its brand (Devasagayam & Buff, 2008; Hickman & Ward, 2007) …

Soccer playing style has not been addressed in detail in the academic literature, as playing
style has often been dismissed as the aesthetic element of the game. Brief mention of …

This article explores the propagation of national narratives through football in both the
Spanish and the European media in the period 2008–2012. The Spanish national team's …