World Cup

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The World Cup
Futbol, football, soccer, fußball, futebol,축구, whatever name you call it, they all share the equivalence of the intangible power the sport had and still has all over the world.The World Cup is an international soccer tournament that takes place in a new country every four years. National teams of countries all over the world compete just to qualify years in advance. Nations battle to the glorious final in which if they win they are crowned as the absolute best soccer team in the whole world. The first World Cup was founded in 1930 and it took place in Uruguay. In addition during the 20th century, soccer became intertwined and impacted economically and socially (with the help of media) on a global scale as a result of the birth of the World Cup. It impacted the 20th century economically because of it’s globalization of the sport and it’s creation of the soccer business in the world wide market. It impacted socially because of it’s creation of nationalism and it’s effects on how the countries perceived themselves in this competition . How’s that for just kicking around some balls?
The World Cup impacted the 20th century economically because of it’s globalization of the of the sport and it’s creation of the soccer business in the world wide market. When the World Cup first emerged into the light of the world it soon became a new global business as countries spent money just to watch the amazing game. However this global business wouldn’t have started without the creation of the generator and controller of the World Cup themselves, FIFA. The absolute mecca of the soccer world was created in “ May 1904....founded by representatives from France, Belgium, Holland...

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...ies. The most infamous example would have to be in the 1938 friendly match between England and Germany in the Berlin Olympic Stadium before the 1938 World Cup in France. In this match “the English football team were blackguarded by the Foreign Office and the Football Association into giving the "Heil Hitler" Nazi salute” ( Mellor), as Nazi followers thought it was a perfect way for spreading nationalistic propaganda. The Nazi party wanted the world to acknowledge their strong national pride for this political party, and what better way of showing it than forcing the England soccer players to follow this salute as it was broadcasted to the world. As a result of the birth of the World Cup it allowed countries to express their national pride in the form of playing to their full potential on the field. How well they played increased their national stigma and vice versa.

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