Coming to America: Historical Ontologies and United States Soccer

Armstrong, Gary; Rosbrook-Thompson, James

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2010.492295

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“…The investment of American clubs in more experienced football stars started in the 1970s with Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff. More recently, football stars at the end of their careers have also turned to North America, such as Thierry Henry, David Beckham, Kaká, David Villa, Andrea Pirlo and Bastian Schweinsteiger (Armstrong & Rosbrook, 2010). The North American market has also exported some talent to the European continent, among them: Friedel, McBride, Reyna, Donovan, Howard, Dempsey and Davies.…”

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Football player ranking generated by multivariate methods

Melo¹,

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Braúna³

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The objective was to build a ranking of football players based on multivariate methods. The players evaluated were the winners of FIFA; UEFA; Ballon D'Or; FIFPro; World Soccer; Golden Ball World Cup and King of América awards. A total of 95 players were evaluated based on the variables: games played, wins, draws, losses, goals scored, yellow/red cards, awards, dream team, title in national leagues/ continental championships in a football club, title in world cups/ continental championship in a national team, Olympics gold medal. We performed the multivariate clustering and principal components analyses. The grouping technique resulted in three groups: regionally renowned players (Group 1), renowned players for their extraordinary performance (Group 2), and globally renowned players (Group 3). The players in Group 2, except for Maradona, reached the highest indexes. The leaders of the ranking were Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Pelé, and Iniesta.

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Football player ranking generated by multivariate methods

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“…This disconnection of football from the United States is reasonable because, despite the wide dissemination of U.S. cultural products in China, American “soccer” (e.g., Major League Soccer) is largely ignored by both Chinese media producers and Chinese football fans. This might partly explain these fans' total lack of awareness of the general American perception of soccer as a White, middle‐class, feminine sport (Armstrong & Rosbrook‐Thompson, ; Cashmore, ; Marcovits & Hellerman, ). Because of the hegemonic status of European professional leagues in the global football industry, the White, European hypermasculine body has become the object of desire Chinese fans can access and in turn use as an object upon which to project their Whiteness fetish.…”

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Media Reflexivity and Taste: Chinese Slash Fans' Queering of European Football

Gong

2015

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This article explores Chinese female fans' appropriation of European football in their slash imagination. Through observations of online fan discussions and in‐depth interviews with 12 fans, I show that they use European football to articulate distinct fan identities and their particular positionalities. These fans contrast the realism of mediated sport with realism in other entertainment genres to distinguish themselves from other sport and slash fan practices. Furthermore, while these slash fans critique feminine gender norms in their claim to sexual agency, their taste for European football is racialized in problematic ways. The particular economic, social, and cultural subject positions of these fans act as structuring factors that influence their taste for slashing European football.

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