Fans in Sarajevo celebrate after Bosnia-Herzegovina qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time in their country’s history. Can soccer unite the still wartorn country, or is divisive as almost everything else here? Two texts for comparison:
one (c) THE GUARDIAN, the other one by THE DIALY MAIL, 2013
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Soccer as glue for Bosnia-Herzegovina?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, FIFA World Cup, football, soccer, sport on 18 October 2013 by delclemImage of the Self & the Other
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Africa, Euro 2012, Europe, Germany, Italy, Racism, soccer, stereotypes on 30 June 2012 by delclem
PS on the EURO 2012: During the match Germany vs Italy yesterday, Europe seemed to be haunted again not only by a sort of nationalist catharsis, but also by its colonial past: closet racist images of the Self and the Other, creating a strange (soccer) aesthetics of fear & desire. Did the black Italian player Mario Barwuah Balotelli re-affirm or undermine those stereotypes with his historic gesture – and what happened in the eye of the beholder when the image got viral?
Soccer Nationalism is back ;)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Europe, Nationalism, soccer on 8 June 2012 by delclem
‘The imagined community of millions seems more real
as a team of eleven named people.” Eric Hobsbawm
The 1942 “Death Match”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1942, death match, football, Germany, Second World War, soccer, Ukraine on 24 May 2012 by delclem
“The aftermath of the so-called ‘death match’ between the Kiev football team ‘Start’ and a team of Nazi soldiers during World War Two has been hotly debated for decades. Continue reading
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