Champions Club Ethnography

For my mini ethnography paper I wanted to choose the Boys and Girls Club of Alachua County as my social setting. The Boys and Girls Club is a place where children come to be children, especially when they do not have the opportunity to do so at home. Most of these children have to take some type of adult role when they get home from the program because of personal circumstances. The Boys and Girls club is located in the middle of a low income neighborhood, where parents are barely able to pay their weekly fees for their children.

Although, the case study of Manchester United gives us a good example of a brand’s ability to globalize, it does not give us a clear picture into how a league as a whole accomplishes these same goals. To get this clear picture of a successful global soccer league we can review a case study by Matthew Holt that examines the UEFA Champions League and its ability to succeed. The UEFA Champions League(UCL) was established after the UEFA European cup started to see more revenue increases based on the increase in television and digital technologies. (Holt, 2007) The goal of the UCL was to increase revenue through a newly structured European club soccer league. The first way that UCL accomplished this was through centralized marketing. This was accomplished through selling the television rights as the UCL brand rather than allowing the clubs to individually sell the rights to the games. This increased the value of the television rights and in turn increased the profitability of the clubs. (Holt, 2007) UEFA sold this UCL brand

There comes a time in every child’s life when they become aware of who they are and question their place in the world, this is no different for a child with a disability. Most important is that every child has a safe environment to be able to express themselves without receiving judgement from adults.

We are the only person who are responsible for making our club thrive and more popular in the world. People are attracted to our club and the popularity of our club is growing widely mainly because of following reasons: • We never stop singing or chanting during a match, no matter what the result is. • We never sit down during a

During my time at the drop-in center I had the opportunity to be the key-note speaker for numerous churches at various youth nights and numerous youth retreats. I was also asked to represent the drop-in center at many of the churches in Winkler by giving a mission update/sermon on many of the church’s Sunday morning services throughout my tenure. In 2011, I was asked to give the message at our community’s annual summer festival where all the churches gather for a joint Sunday morning service (unsolicited, someone so was kind to video tape it and provide me with a copy).

I was a participant in the Labor of Love event on Saturday, September 9 from 8:00am-12:00pm. At 8:00am on Saturday, we all gathered on the McKenna Lawn for a brief meeting and continental breakfast. During that time, together as Setonians, one of the Sisters of Charity spoke to us about the importance of performing charitable works, and how these works will impact many people who are in need of our gift of service. After those impactful words, we were dismissed off to our service sights. I signed up for the Greater Parkview Church. I really did not know what to expect when I signed up for the service day, but I thought it would be a great opportunity to meet fellow students and serve at the same time. The church is located on the corner of Westminster Avenue. It is a large building that houses service every Sunday morning and a bible study every Wednesday night. When my friends and I walked into the doors, the pastor was sitting in his office. He immediately put us to work. We cleaned the inside and outside of the windows. Inside of the sanctuary space, we vacuumed, Lysol wiped the wooden pews and microphone stands. Also, we dusted the wooden fixtures on the altar and the surrounding area.

I fell in love with sports at a very young age. My first encounter with a team occurred because of my father. It's important to note that sports mean different things to different people, it can provide an escape from the trials and tribulations that life brings as well as a dose of excitement that plagues those with a routine. For my father, sports offered a transnational bond, a tie to a geographic location that would end up developing one of my strongest allegiances. The game was futbol, and the team was Club Deportivo Guadalajara (Chivas). In this short paper I will discuss a brief history of the Chivas organization, including their origins, development and success.

In this assignment I will be exploring the ways in which Internal and external factors have an impact on the core revenues of Clubs and how clubs themselves can potentially help put the factors in their favour. Topics such as Fans and their behaviour and Player conduct on and off the pitch will be explored. Things that can occur which clubs have little or no power over – such as a major political shift – which can affect a clubs income will also be covered.

But the past few years have been particularly painful for the aficionados of Roma and Liverpool. Totti and Gerrard have seen their club slip down their respective domestic league tables in recent years owing to the dominance of their cross country rivals. Both Roma and Liverpool have failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League since the 2010-2011 and 2009-2010 seasons respectively. Their continued absence from Europe’s premier football cup competition has severely tarnished their image and dented their aspirations of attracting the big name players to their clubs which their domestic rivals have been successfully able to do so.

Manchester United, informally known as “The Reds” have enjoyed a great deal of success in the Premier League. Under the great “Sir” (knighted by the queen for his services to soccer) Alex Ferguson, United attained thirteen Premier League/ Football League titles, five FA Cup wins, two Champions League wins, and many more titles including his famed treble (winning all three competitions in one year) (Trophy Room). To examine SAF’s winning record is to look into not only how many titles he won for Manchester United but how he reignited the Manchester United dynasty from the club’s first managerial legend, Sir Matt Busby. SMB paved the way for SAF whilst building the football club from scratch. In fact, SMB had tried to sign with crosstown

In these last few classes were have talked about dibs, gone over some limit setting, and have music therapists come to the class. I was really interested in hearing about music therapy because I honestly did not know anything about it before our guest speakers came in. I was excited to see what it entailed, and was interested in the audience that they worked with. But when they introduced themselves I quickly became upset when one of the speakers started talking about the dying children she worked with. I feel like we should have had a warning that she was going to talk about how she worked with dying children on a song for their funeral because that was too heartbreaking to handle, especially for someone who has had a very sick younger cousin who has spent large time spans in the hospital and have had life threatening complications. On a lighter note, we talked about limit setting in class and I did find it interesting the rule and regulations that came along with limit setting. I enjoyed the statement “A limit is not needed, until it is needed,” because it still allows the autonomy of the children choosing things while still protecting yourself in situations that are deemed necessary. I did find it surprising when it was mentioned that some children can spend entire classes setting limits and making choices on what to do once a limit is not respected. I also like that we talked about how consistency is key, because that is applicable anywhere in a child’s life, they need consistency in their life to a certain point in order to be well functioning.

The UEFA Champions League is a European football tournament that is held every year across Europe. With over 300 million television viewers, the league’s final is the most watched annual sporting event worldwide. For an event of this magnitude, the stakes for everyone involved are very high (appendix 1). This essay includes a short description of the tournament along with an overview of the stakeholders, followed by an analysis of one of the sponsors, Heineken.

It has been suggested that the UCL is a product of societal evolution. After forty years without change the European Cup had become commercially obsolete to broadcasters and sponsors due to the lack of guaranteed matches involving Europe’s biggest clubs (Ahlstrom, 2002). The knockout format allowed for clubs who would bring in large sums of revenue to be eliminated after merely two games.

Some European football clubs have in, approximately in the last three decades, developed from being relatively small local organizations, into global giants in terms of multi-million businesses supported and followed by millions of stakeholders from all over the world. How does one relate

The financial environment surrounding football is very volatile. The pursuit of success, and the associated financial gains, has led to teams adopting aggressive spending strategies, which often lead to financial distress. In recent years the cases of Portsmouth, Southampton and Crystal Palace in England and Gretna, Livingston and Dundee closer to home have highlighted the consequences of overspending. Others have suffered highly publicized financial difficulties resulting from poor financial management by club owners, with fans of Manchester United