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poverty

Economic Problems, kids in Brazil didn’t always have access to shoes which helped build support and endurance, you only needed a ball to play soccer

futbol arte

Football as art, drama, dance, and spectacle. (Goldblatt)

Sublime: tending to inspire awe (elegance)

“hand of god” goal

Diego Maradona’s goal in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup. Carried lots of significance because of the political context of anti-imperialism in Argentina (specifically, the Falkland Islands)

Modernization and Urbanization

The industrialization of labor creates a movement into cities for factory labor, the infrastructure to facilitate the movement, such as transportation, the associated markets created by large population centers, such as media.

Anti-football

Was used to define the Argentine style of play in soccer.

FIFA

World governing body of association football(soccer) that sets the rules of play, establishes standards for refereeing and coaching, oversees international player transfers, organizes the World Cup and other international tournaments, and promotes the global development of sports.

Fascism 

When the head of the government has full power (dictator)

Working-Class Sport

A sport historically associated with the working class communities, often requiring minimal equipment and being easily accessible

WTA (Women’s Tennis Association)

Organizing body for women’s professional tennis founded by Billie Jean King.

Benito Mussolini

italian Fascist Ruler, was dictator of Italy from 1922-1943

Civilization in the context of sports 

Civilization in the context of sports refers to how organized physical activity became structured and set into place into lots of systems like education, industry and normal life.

Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands are a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. It consists of an archipelago of two main islands and numerous other smaller ones. 

World Cup

The first World Cup was hosted in 1930 in Uruguay. Uruguay defeated Argentina, and England was not in it due to being removed from FIFA. 

Issues came up on how FIFA chose the countries, being controversial on what political powers they were supporting. 

The World Cup had scandals like the 1934 World Cup that was hosted in Italy. There was a lot of controversy due to bribing officials. Mussolini played a big role in ensuring Italy won.

Professionalization in sports

Professionalization in sports means having respect for your teammates, opposing teammates, and the nature of the game you’re playing as a whole.

Billie Jean King

Former American tennis player. Affair with women affected how people perceived her, especially back then most were conservative. Tennis became more commercialized.

Gender and LGBTQ rights, didn’t want that to be her whole identity and how it makes women’s tennis look

Origin of Tennis

Tennis originated from Walter Clopton Wingfield in an effort to make tennis more accessible.

Ethnicity

How in places like Germany, ethnicity in sports played a role and people such as Jews and Roma could not participate.

But, places like Brazil desegregated for the means of being great in the sport by finding people with talent of all races and all classes

Football Association (FA)

England starts FA in 1863 and establishes the “Laws of the game”

Soccer as propaganda

Mussolini utilized soccer and stadium as a tool of propagating Fascism to people. Not only hosting major events at the stadium brought people together and emphasized fascism but also defeating other countries in the World Cup shows the superiority of Fascism to other countries as well.