The glocalisation of sports: a study of the influence of European Football Leagues on Nigerian society Nowadays, the commercialisation, internationalisation and brand images of football clubs are vital. This paper examines the globalisation and glocalisation... PA Igwe,ADA Obatolu,CA Nwajiuba,... ...
It explores what socialist football is, how the club was conceived and nurtured, how it is organized and how the international network was cultivated. It spans the clubs operations from the Sunday League mundane to the internationalspectaculars. It tracks how the club has adapted to confront many...
This paper analyses the political position of football fans in Serbia, focusing on the fan groups of the two biggest Serbian clubs, Red Star and Partizan from Belgrade. The research focuses on the reasons why there is no left-wing platfo... I Djordjevic,R Peki - 《Soccer & Society》 被引...
And Pedrola has not disappointed in becoming a star on the left wing. While he has not played any match for the senior team, he has dominated in the reserves scoring seven goals in 15 games. Four of these goals came when the team were either drawing the match or losing...
The rock in the middle of that defence is a powerful centre-back, capable of breaking up play and setting up counterattacks with ease. While full-backs and more often wing-backs are the most fashionable position in football, covering a huge amount of ground between offensive and defensive tra...
United have effectively had no reliable left-back for the past two seasons, and their weakness in this position has become even more glaring since the arrival of Amorim due to the coach's use of wing-backs. Diogo Dalot has had to play there, but his best position is on the r...
For a sport that purportedly belongs to the working class, football—the professional sport as it exists today—is anything but aligned with labor or leftist politics. It’s easy to think of football players, clubs, and fan groups with right-wing inclinations, from the moderately conservative to...
“Just to have that experience of playing at the academy in Barcelona will have helped him, and he would’ve learned a lot technically and it showed as well in his performance,” former Villa and England striker Gabriel Agbonlahor toldFootball Insider. ...
Football has evolved. Modern-day football is nothing like it was 50 years ago. From playstyles to positions and tactics, everything has demanded change in the beautiful game in some or the other way. For instance, positions likethe Libero‘s andthe Sweeper‘s have beco...
Juventus's most dangerous attacker got a goal more in keeping with the beauty of his overall performance,arriving late at the back post to head Cuadrado's delicious right-wing cross into the top corner. Chiesa then skipped effortlessly past Jesus Corona, although Marchesin stood firm to prevent...