Author : Dani Borden
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 2023-08
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 1669049124
The most popular sport in the world is guaranteed to have its fair share of rivalries. Does winning a World Cup make a team the best? Or does Olympic gold deserve the glory? Discover some of soccer's biggest rivalries past and present and decide for yourself who's the best.
Author : Chrös McDougall
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Soccer fans worldwide love nothing more than to cheer their team to victory over their most heated rival. Soccer rivalries take many forms, from international duels between countries down to local grudge matches between clubs who share the same city. This title introduces readers to some of the top rivalries in the world, explaining how they began and why they are still important today. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a glossary, and an index. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Kausik Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1000373738
While rivalry is embedded in any sporting event or performance, soccer, the world’s most popular mass spectator sport, has been an emblem of such rivalries since its inception as an organized sport. Some of these rivalries grow to become long-term and perennial by their nature, extent, impact and legacy, from the local to the global level. They represent identities based on widely diverse affiliations of human life—locality, region, nation, continent, community, class, culture, religion, ethnicity, and so on. Yet, at times, such rivalries transcend barriers of space and time, where soccer-clubs, -nations, -personalities, -organizations, -styles and -fans float and compete with intriguing identities. The present volume brings into focus some of the most fascinating and enduring rivalries in the world of soccer. It attempts to encapsulate, analyse and reconstruct those rivalries—between nations, between clubs, between personalities, between styles of play, between fandoms, and between organizations—in a historical perspective in relation to diverse identities, competing ideologies, contestations of power, psychologies of attachment, bonds of loyalty, notions of enmity, articulations of violence, and affinities of fan culture—some of the core manifestations of sporting rivalry. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
Author : Lee Colvin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2019-03-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0244770484
Boca-River, Red Star-Partizan, Lazio-Roma, Celtic-Rangers, England-Scotland, Racing Club-Velez, Hamburg-St.Pauli, Glentoran-Linfield, Feyenoord-Ajax, Ireland-Northern Ireland, Inter-Milan, Genoa-Sampdoria, Real Madrid-Barcelona, Sporting-Benfica, Birmingham-Villa. A journey through some big football rivalries that simply mean more than a game to a lot of people.Think of your local school rivalry as a kid and times it by a million, to get some of the raw passion of these games.Bigotry, pyro, tifo and mayhem accompany most of them. Being struck by baguettes in Madrid, blocks of ice in Buenos Aires and covered in beer in Rotterdam.This is a story of chasing match tickets, hitchhiking, cancelled games and relying on cheap flights and plenty of booze.It's all here an
Author : Richard Fitzpatrick
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1408158795
An investigation of the intrigue, politics and culture behind El Clásico - the hard-fought, long-running contest between two of the world's biggest football clubs - explaining the place sport's greatest rivalry has in Spanish life and the world of football.
Author : Geoff Harvey
Publisher : Aesculus Press Ltd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781904328131
Rivals is both the ultimate directory of football derbies and a collection of the stats that 'really matter' for the English League Clubs. Forget the dry and oft-quoted football facts, 'Rivals' arms the reader with a completely new set of fan-based stats. Find out which club has the highest 'nutter rating' (arrests per 1,000 attendance), or the worst 'Your ground's too big for you' ranking! Which club offers their supporters the worst 'Fans' value-for-money' (admission price as a ratio of 5 year league position!) There are many intriguing, often funny, stories behind the web of little publicised, though frequently intense, rivalries between clubs and fans. With many contributions from supporters, the book examines the extraordinary cult of British Football Derbies, looking at the inter-town and regional biases, stereotypes, and opinions that fans have about their footballing rivals. At 240pp, Rivals is a light-hearted collection of statistics, fans' testimony and boundless trivia. The book uncovers the amusing, bizarre, and sometimes alarming portraits of the intensity of fans' feelings, and the way in which they perceive other teams, towns and cities. It has a clear format pulling together diverse facts. Attractively designed with information given under headings allowing the reader to compare various facts on a club-to-club basis, the text can be read from cover to cover or dipped into.
Author : David Peace
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612193714
“Probably the best novel ever written about sport.” —The Times (UK) He was a real-life, working-class hero known as the “British Muhammad Ali”—because he had a big mouth and wasn’t afraid to use it. But Brian Clough wasn’t a boxer, he was a soccer coach, known for taking backwater teams and making them into champions. In towns where people had little else, the hard-drinking and scrappy Clough was a hero. He was especially beloved for telling it like it was on behalf of small-town teams everywhere—calling out the stars who played dirty, rival coaches he suspected of bribing referees, and the league that let them get away with it. And then one day Clough was offered a job coaching the big-city team he’d called the dirtiest—the perennial powerhouse Leeds United. The Damned Utd tells the story of the legendary Clough’s tumultuous forty-four days trying to turn around a corrupt institution without being corrupted himself—the players who wouldn’t play, the management that looked the other way, the wife and friends who stood by him as he fought to do the right thing. The inspiring story behind the movie of the same name, The Damned Utd has been called by The Times of London, “The best novel ever written about sport.”
Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1617136255
(FAQ). Soccer FAQ is a fast, furious, and opinionated guide to the world's most popular game, an all-encompassing history that introduces readers to the biggest clubs, the greatest games, the finest players, and the fiercest rivalries. From Sunderland to Seattle, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Soccer FAQ delves into every aspect of the sport, tracing its development from a victorious Anglo-Saxon army kicking the heads of their fallen enemies around a field, to the multibillion-dollar industry of today-and every stop in between. Record breakers and giant killers alike file through the pages, illustrating the beautiful game as it is played at every level, from the World Cup Final to the village green, with fully updated commentary on all the world's major competitions, including the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Author : Andy Mitten
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0007360975
A celebration of the classic football derby matches. From the Celtic–Rangers rivalry and Tyneside derby to the biggest global clashes from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, journalist Andy Mitten uses the fans' own words and stories to illuminate the conflicts, tensions, histories and culture behind these fascinating games.
Author : Havard, Cody T.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 152258126X
While rivalries are a key aspect of the sports world, they are not well understood. It is essential to study how rivalries influence fan behavior in order to predict and identify their effect on social interaction, consumer behavior, and the entertainment industry. Understanding Rivalry and Its Influence on Sports Fans is an essential reference source that discusses what causes and influences rivalry, as well as how it impacts sport fans. Featuring research on topics such as bracketed morality, competitive sports, and social identity, this book is ideally designed for academics, students, and researchers studying the rivalry phenomenon across such disciplines as psychology, sociology, political science, sport and entertainment, consumer behavior, and marketing.
