The Beautiful Game
Football (or soccer, as it is often called) is a beautiful game to play
or to watch, but it is a mistake to think that it is just a game.
Many people have said that football is fascinating because it is like
life – a complex mixture of competition and cooperation, individual
initiative and team play, driven by money, power, glory and fame. But
real football fans know the truth: football isn’t like life, it
is life. This course seeks to understand some important aspects of
society through the particularly revealing political, social and economic
structures of global football. Issues of class, race, gender, identity,
nationality and nationalism are examined in the context of the
commercialization, politicalization and globalization of the sport.
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