Crowd Noise And Effect In Soccer

The main issue that I have chosen is hooliganism in football. The article to be analysed is that of Eric Dunning: Soccer Hooliganism as a world social problem, (in Sport Matters- sociological studies of sport, violence and civilization (2001). Other works will also be looked at to highlight wider understanding of soccer hooliganism from different social thoughts. What will follow is an essay that will try to cover issues raised by Dunning in his article. It is worth noting that Dunning in his quest to understand soccer hooliganism comes from a figurational perspective (this will be discussed later).

One of the most reoccurring problem during a soccer match is fan violence. There have been matches were the players from a team and/or the fans have gotten injured because of the misconduct presented among fans. Throwing stuff to other fans or players and starting fights are stuff that people will most likely see if they attend soccer matches. This is especially shown when the two teams playing against each other are considered rivals in soccer. The people affected when this happens are the soccer fans and sometimes the players. What causes most of these problems during a match, is when fans are not happy about the score or when they think that there has been an error during the game. Typically, when a team is losing their fans start to show

However, soccer sometimes has negative impacts on individuals taking part in the game as spectators or players. Soccer makes a number of individuals intolerant and this intolerance could cause disturbances to other participants in the game. Hooliganism is one of the most popular form of intolerance in the game of soccer where fans from the opposing sides in most instances get into physical confrontations resulting in injuries and in worse cases, deaths. An example was when Egypt faced Algeria in an African Nations Cup tournament where Algerian fans got down into the pitch and engaged the Egyptian fans in a physical fight which left several people dead. These physical fights are not only limited to the fans but the soccer players as well. Many instances have been reported of players getting into physical confrontations with the members of the opposing team (Huggins, 2007). This has resulted in the development of more stringent rules to reduce such incidences. This is evidence of how the popular culture that is soccer elicits emotions among the participant of the game.

The culture of soccer is more than just articles written in sport pages, or rumors about players been transferred from one club to another. It includes a bigger picture that covers many different social, political and economic aspects of the game. In countries where the sport is not that relevant, people refer to it as soccer. In others where the sport is very popular and has been around for a long time, it is referred to as football. When it comes to the sport, there are two very different ideas relevant to how people view it. In said countries where soccer is the national sport, the game is viewed as if it can achieve anything; from having just fun with your friends to helping unite people from around the world. In other countries where the sport is not as much popular, the game is seen as boring and is looked down on. This paper will explore how soccer is growing at such a rapid pace despite the fact that it can be viewed as violent and boring.

Despite the low capacity, there was overcrowding which is directly linked to the crush. When organizing the football match, the organisers were supposed to look at possibilities of people crushing against the turnstiles and other fixed structures or barriers, underfoot trampling, spectator aggressiveness and surging or swaying behaviour of the spectators (Winter, 2012).

Soccer, or football to most of the world, has been one of the oldest sports in the history of the world. It is by far the most viewed, played, and biggest attendance sport throughout the countries, with the exception of the USA. Being the biggest sport in the world means having the biggest fan base as well. This sport has become as close to many fans hearts just as the bible can change people who read it. In this paper, the reader will understand how soccer has changed throughout the years, what the ideals of a unified code are in this sport, as well as the differences and similarities between youth and professional.

From the discussion about football, the group exchanged each of their own notions about the sport. Starting with the opinions on the sentence “Football has totally changed the worlds of sport, media, and leisure”, they have quite similar perspectives on this. They think that football has made huge changes to the world. Since football is a simple but fun team sport, it became popular and widespread across the world. From the fact that many people are interested in this sport, the media tried their best to catch this opportunity and broadcast the news, matches, or even analysis and predictions about football for the people. The increasing of media coverage on football has caused a ripple effect. It caused more people to know more about football,

The purpose of this assignment was to observe and analyze the behaviors of UC Davis athletes on an NCAA Intercollegiate sports team. I was able to observe the athletes in their natural setting and observe their behaviors before, during and after the game. This assignment is important because we are observing athletes without interfering. This gives the researcher the ability to observe their natural behavior while playing the game. From this experience we are trying to learn the different behaviors that each player has, or if they have any similarities. We are also learning how players interact with their team, their coaches and the crowd.

The football versus soccer fight rages on for years now and has sparked quite some controversy. Let’s start by saying that I will call football, as it is known around the world, soccer. What is often classified as American Football for this essay will be called football. Some of the controversies that have been sparked between the two are ones such as; “why is it called football when its only one player on the team is allowed to use his feet and is only done on small occasions?”, “which is more physical?” and issues as simple as which of the two requires more endurance. Most people may look at it one way when there is also another way to view these two legendary sports as I call them. As there may be differences between the two, there are also similarities. There are a lot of debates that goes on regards with football and soccer. Some consider that soccer is another name of football while others may argue that soccer is entirely different from football. In this paper a compare and contrast the two famous games, football and soccer will set us on a clearer path.

Since its conception, soccer continues to dominate the global sports scene. As of 2015, 265 million people play soccer in the world. This widely known game was invented two centuries ago in England and quickly became one of the most popular sports in the world. Soccer is also exceptionally influential in the political world. The sport has the capability to spark war and bring peace to entire nations. Along with its effects on the political world, soccer is also a considerable part of many cultures. The daily lives of people culturally and politically would be vastly different if it weren’t for the major influence of soccer.

Sociological Discussion of Soccer: Live vs. Televised Iyanna Rivera-Gough University of Arizona The game of soccer has long been one of the world’s most popular sports. This sport is so varied and encompasses so many different regions of the world and types of people, making it an ideal topic of study for sociology. Through attending a live soccer game and watching the Seattle Sounders play on television, I was able to identify three different perspectives throughout the sport; the first being the symbolic interaction perspective which views the society as the sum of all personal interactions based on the interpretation of meaning, the second, the structural functional perspective which views society as a machine whose parts must

Today, most people refer to soccer only as football. In current day football, the sponsors have a major impact on activities taking place around the soccer world. With no sponsors in the sporting activities, there may be little or no competition that may make it less entertaining. As much as it is a business activity, sports are also a major source of entertainment in the

Perceptual bias and perception’s dependency of our mind is demonstrated in the course of many sports. For example, while watching a soccer or football game, people tend to process certain events in a selective manner depending on the team they are rooting for. A classic study by Hastorf and Cantril entitled “They Saw a Game: A Case study” demonstrates the power of selective attention and perception in sport behavior (Castel). After an Ivy League football game in 1951 (Dartmouth vs. Princeton), fans were interrogated about the course of the game, specifically the infractions committed by either team, to determine the role of selective perception in sports. Unquestionably, the results to the study demonstrated that students responded in favor of the school they attended.

Soccer is often considered to be a universal language, spoken around the world. “Soccer is the most globalized sport. Owners of any sporting team demand and pay for top talent from anywhere in the world.”(Top1) For much of the world soccer has long served as a form of ritual play onto which neighborhoods, tribes and even nations could project their most passionate times. Now soccer has turned into the famous game of futbol. For example, more than one billion fans tuned in to watch the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, “with the competition reaching a global in-home television audience of 3.2 billion people, according to final figures from FIFA and Kantar Media.”(Fifa1) The impressive figures are a result of intense global interest in Brazil’s second hosting of the competition, and were achieved even though many matches were broadcast during the night and early hours of the morning in Asia, which is home to nearly two-thirds of the world’s population.

Upon walking through the doors, the loud chatter of people urgently calling for teammates to get the ball, or the thunderous sounds the ball makes when it hits against the field walls soon fills ears and connects people instantly with the live atmosphere. This noisy atmosphere isn’t for everyone but for those rowdy soccer players this is paradise.