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Der Stellenwert des Sports in Kroatien

If modernity is an era marked strongly with popular culture, as discussed in many social studies (Nachbar), then sport is one of the most prominent aspects of popular culture (Boyle). We will primarily talk here about football that like "no other form of popular culture engenders [...] huge and participatory passion among its devotees" (Giulianotti 1999). The studies have already been carried out about importance of football for popular culture of Croatia (Brentin 2013) and we also must acknowledge that, as Vrcan (cf. 2003) explains, today the so-called "national spirit" (Volksgeist) is shaped and reflected largely through football and football scene. In addition to that, sometimes the football, as a form of a folk culture, performs also as a social system of early warning that announces the advent of turmoil which is prepared somewhere in the depths of social being, behind the scenes of official society and culture. We can also consider football as a live generator and liquid bonding material of certain social identities that bring the fullness of life and consistency to institutional arrangements and ideological formations. Put simply, the football translates them from the social- systemic and structural facts to the facts of everyday life (Vrcan 2003). As an important element of popular culture and the world's most popular sport football is omnipresent in Croatian society. Media representations of football events (not just the important ones) are significant and they only reflect the status of the game in everyday discourse, especially among the male part of the population. The popularity of the game and the number of improvised and real football fields have enabled considerably more of playing, watching and enjoying football. Daily presence and vicinity of the game have created bonds with the team from the street, neighborhood, school, company, city, region or nation, and in today's post-modern times even with a team from another city, region, state and even nation (examples are contemporary popularity of Barcelona and the Brazilian national team in South Eastern Europe). Anyhow, football is an important identity framework for a part of population and clubs are important symbols of a city or a region. It is just in terms of identity importance, symbolic potential and thus a means of distinction from the others where we can find one of the basic reasons for the popularity of football.

Sport ; Kroatien ; Ethnologie

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