2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 55: Sports Spectatorship and Fandom 2

9 Jun 2022, 09:00

Description

Chair: Marcel Reinold
Room: VBN3, Building HZM Basement

181. Being Successful without Selling Your Soul? AMF Clubs Between Hopes and Values: Insight from HFC Falke and NK Varteks

Christian Brandt, Marko Mustapić, Benjamin Perasovic

09/06/2022, 09:00

The goal of this research is to examine the relationship of “Against Modern Football” (AMF) clubs towards success and progress in lower league football, focusing on two clubs in Germany and Croatia.
Research on HFC Falke is based on 27 months of ethnographic fieldwork using thick participation (123 field diary entries, 10 interviews). Research on NK Varteks is based on 17 months of...

182. AGUANTE, FOOTBALL and RESILIENCE

Raul Cadaa

09/06/2022, 09:20

Aguante, football and resilience

The "aguante" is a word used by Argentines to highlight mental strength; tolerance and resistance to disgust; ability to repress or contain negative reactions; patience and conformism to withstand adversity or to control suffering in the face of loss. During the last decades this word has been closely linked to the soccer lexicon, and particularly to the...

183. Becoming Nationalist. Exploring Biographical Paths of Polish Football Fans Involved in Nationalist Activism

Mateusz Grodecki

09/06/2022, 09:40

The paper aims to explore process of becoming nationalist in Polish football supporters environment, namely the biographical paths that have shaped one’s orientation on nationalist-oriented activism. To this end, it uses Thomas and Znaniecki’s classic methodology which allows to study ‘process of becoming’ using autobiographical data. The analysis draws on 25 individual interviews with the...