The image above was taken by Stuart Franklin Bongarts. This image yields multiple strong arguments, that some people could analyze it without even having preliminary knowledge on it’s subject, the beautiful game, football. Football or, soccer to others is the biggest sport in the world, it is viewed by people across the globe and is or used to be all about the game. In modern football, it seems the only people that still care for the game are football fans. Nowadays, players and coaches do all sorts of illegal soccer breaches from fake injuries to match fixing. However, it seems fair that players and coaches would go through such drastic measures to win games as they get paid very good money. Fans such as the photographer are frustrated, but …show more content…
The World Cup is the biggest tournament in the world, the previous 2014 world cup was viewed by 3.2 billion people (FIFA). That is crazy to think of when their are only 7 billion people on Earth. With that much viewers many countries compete to host the tournament. As for the 2018 bid four countries that made proposals that it should be played in their country were Russia, England, Spain and Portugal, and The Netherlands and Belgium (Marc Vesty, Sam Sheringham and Jonathan Stevenson). In this case the logical option would be England it is the football capital of the world, it has all the stadiums ready as well. Even if England wasn't chosen, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands and Belgium running as joint countries would also be respectable decisions. As for the 2022 bid Qatar, USA, South Korea, Australia, and Japan bid for the World Cup (Marc Vesty, Sam Sheringham and Jonathan Stevenson). The best option would be for USA to host it, football is rising in America and by 2022 it would have even more supporters. In 2015 the women's World Cup hosted in the USA gained 26 million viewers, and the 2014 world cup match between USA vs Portugal broke records as it was the most viewed game in US history with 26.7 million viewers, it topped viewer counts in huge events in the US such as the NBA Playoffs and The World Series. (Richard Sandomir). …show more content…
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Foer vowed to show us how the game of soccer can impact different regions and cultures. He indicated us how these relationships (between different nations and beliefs), while there, are hard to apprehend on the global scale. But trough soccer, these relationships reveal themselves in a hesitant fashion.
Franklin Foer the author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization is an important contributor of the small topic of the how soccer is related to the world. Foer from the New Republic who writes from time to time in the well known newspaper of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal had traveled around the world especially the continent of Europe, Asia, North and South America. Going from the topic of why the Islam religion, Islamic law, and religious paramilitary militia prohibits the passionate, die-hard Islamic women fans; from attending and/or watching soccer games and then partying hard like the men after the game if their country or favorite club wins. To the topic of how America relates to soccer when the middle class accepted this sport because of the little violence that they thought the sport contained and to how some Americans support writers such as Tom Weir from USA Today’s “that hating soccer is more American than apple pie, driving a pickup, or spending Saturday afternoons channel surfing with the remote control” (Foer 240). The majority of Americans that support this quote are the lower class, liberals, majority of sports reporters, and narrow minded Americans. These topics and/or chapters really show how soccer is creating more globalization around the world especially with Islamic women getting rid of their traditions and trying new things such as showing their passion for soccer. In addition, America is trying to pass its apple pie and watching American Football on a Sunday to watching beautiful game of soccer. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization is really divided into three groups; the first being the rivalries between clubs and human beings, sec...
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America currently, and most likely will be for the years to come. Along with football, there are
Erin Franklin Mrs. Bauch 5th Hour Speech 18 May 2016 How many of you know that the Summer Olympics are in Rio this year? What has been happening to Brazil will possibly serve as a lesson to other countries wanting to host the Olympics (Navarro-Garcia). The 2016 Summer Olympics are expected to bring in around 500,000 people to Brazil (? Zika concerns mount?).
In the 19th century, soccer started to come to life in America. Some colleges started to play the game in the 1820s, with the first contest taking place at Harvard in 1827. Then, a huge invention took place in 1855. That year, the Charles Goodyear soccer ball was invented. Charles Goodyear created these soccer balls with vulcanized rubber. 12 years later in 1867, soccer took two huge steps. The first standardized soccer rules were published that year. Now, graduates from different schools could play together and had proper rules to follow when playing a game. But later that year, another just as, if not mor...
Known as the world’s most popular sport, professional soccer has helped create and define different groups of people around the world for longer than a century. The hoopla surrounding teams, geographic areas fans dwell in, and political ideals associated with individual clubs have carved an identity for millions of supporters whose heart and soul becomes dedicated to their favorite players, stadiums, and coaches. Soccer teams and their fans can give us a window into how people can be divided and defined by their allegiances and ideals, and why those with similar views band together to create a familiar environment for themselves.
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In the world of sport, soccer and football with respect to demographic has had numerous controversies. Although both sport are known famously around the globe, for many years fans from both sides are known for asking, is American football same as soccer? What’s the time limit on both sports? What’s the game objective? Do they use the same ball? However they both have similarities and differences which I will be talking about in this essay.
The FA spent decades, making the game better and developing rules and regulation for the games. The sport was spread all over the world, as far away as Australia and Canada. The FA brand of soccer stayed popular until the establishment of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in 1904. Today FIFA, being the sport’s international body consists of more than two hundred nations. All these nations seek to send their best team to the FIFA World Cup every four years (Auerbach). Teams all around the world are already getting ready for the next FIFA World Cup, which is going to be in Russia in the year
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Soccer has proven to be a notable sport throughout the years starting with its unique history. Soccer began all over the world tracing back thousands of years. The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Vikings, as well as other nationalities all played a form of the game soccer. In China and Rome, games that were similar to soccer were played around 200 B.C. (Helmer and Owens, 5). People believe that soccer started more than a thousand years ago when villagers killed attacking pirates by cutting off their heads and kicking them around (Helmer and Owens, 5). As time went on, people in Europe also played a game similar to soccer during Medieval Times. In fact, soccer was used to prepare warriors for battles in Ancient Greece and Rome (Dilov-Shultheis). In later history, the English called the game “Football” because soccer was played by kicking the ball with the foot (Helmer and Owens, 6). The name “soccer” came to be when the American’s Association Football was shortened to assoc., and later to soc. Eventually in 1895 it was called soccer (Helmer and Owens, 9). By the late 1700s and 1800s, soccer was played in many universities, but the rules were not ...
Sixty-four years later Brazil once again faced no competition in bidding for the World Cup. Unfortunately, Brazilian officials are known for their “lack of transparency in their failures to control costs and adhere to deadlines” (Vinton 7). One contractor stated, “for Brazil money is no issue, I don’t know where they are getting it from but they are spending an incredible amount on the World Cup” (Conti 51). The expected cost of the World Cup is $1.6 Billion, more 85% of the cost placed on taxpayers (Conti 51). When just two years prior there were constant protests against hosting the Confederations Cup (Conti 51).
Football, which is commonly known today as Soccer, began in Europe during the Middle Ages (Leibs 67). “By the early 1600s, the game developed a...
..., and Stefan Szymanski. Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey and Even Iraq Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport. New York: Nation, 2009. Print.