Football Identity and Youth Culture in Germany

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ID20079922
AuthorsUdo Merkel (0000-0002-4693-7013, corresponding author)
Year1999
Pages52-63
Publication date1999-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueFootball Cultures and Identities (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230378896_5
OpenAlexW2424238885
ISBN9780230378896
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Germany has a remarkable record in World Cup tournaments, having finished as champions on three occasions (1954 in Switzerland, 1974 in Germany and 1990 in Italy). Germany has also won the European Championships three times, most recently in 1996. German football, at the domestic level, is equally global in its horizons, the Bundesliga (first division) currently has about 100 foreign players, not only from the ‘traditional’ football nations, e.g. Brazil and Argentina, but also from the United States and Iran. The match commentators at any Bundesliga match require specialist linguistic skills (to pronounce names like Akpoborie, Kovacevic, Rydlewicz, Tyskiewicz and Raducioiu) and a detailed understanding of world geography, to explain the origins of players like Duisburg’s Bachirou Salou, who hails from Togo

Archaeology · Art · Economics · Economy · Football · Geography · German · Identity (music) · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Sociology and Education Studies · Sports, Gender, and Society

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