Reshaping Spanish Football Identity in the 1940s
From Fury to Tactics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12217922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlos García-Martí (0000-0001-9075-6941, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1116-1132 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523367.2016.1232250 |
| OpenAlex | W2526261515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
National playing styles are part of national identities. During the 1940s, a series of defeats questioned the virtue of the Spanish playing style, known as the Spanish Fury, characterized by improvisation, genius, courage and enthusiasm. Isolated from international football trends, Spain has despised the use of man-marking and tactical discipline. Analysis of both official documents and the Spanish press would show that Francoism was sympathetic to the fury’s discourse, being close to the regime’s narrative itself, but needed victories to gain internal support and international recognition in a critical moment of diplomatic pressure and isolation. Therefore, the dictatorship forced the football authorities to undergo a modernization process, which involved abandoning the traditional discourse of the fury, at least momentarily
Aesthetics · Art · Dictatorship · Enthusiasm · Focalization · Football · Identity (music · Literature · Media studies · Modernization theory · Narrative · National identity · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · History · Law · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports and Physical Education Studies · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |