L’Europe à travers le prisme du football. Nouvelles frontières circulatoires et redéfinition de la nation.
This paper discusses the relations between nation-states through the example of football (soccer). More precisely, we analyze from a geopolitical point of view the introduction in the main European championships of quotas limiting the number of non-national players, as well as the absence or presenc...
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| description | This paper discusses the relations between nation-states through the example of football (soccer). More precisely, we analyze from a geopolitical point of view the introduction in the main European championships of quotas limiting the number of non-national players, as well as the absence or presence of a policy of integration for players of foreign origins in national selections. To illustrate this, we adopt a historical perspective to better understand the ways through which soccer, and sports more generally, have become instrumentalized by nation-states in the context of the two World Wars. Moreover, we analyze recent developments regarding quota policies in relation to the emergence of the European Union, with emphasis on the permeability and displacement of frontiers for the free movement of professional football players. We then move to consider the national issue in football by showing that, if the European nation-states tried to homogenize their territories, in order to improve instrumentally the performance, naturalized players were integrated into national teams from the 1920’s onwards. However, not all nation-states adopted the same policy. This is shown through the example of the differential integration of players from colonized territories, as well as by the comparison between France and Germany. Finally, in the light of the concepts of denationalization and transnationalism, we analyze the latest developments in the use of naturalized players by countries such as Qatar and Togo. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b66708d276204db98906e541094971472024-04-04T09:33:46ZdeuUnité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-citésCybergeo1278-33662004-12-0110.4000/cybergeo.2802L’Europe à travers le prisme du football. Nouvelles frontières circulatoires et redéfinition de la nation.Raffaele PoliThis paper discusses the relations between nation-states through the example of football (soccer). More precisely, we analyze from a geopolitical point of view the introduction in the main European championships of quotas limiting the number of non-national players, as well as the absence or presence of a policy of integration for players of foreign origins in national selections. To illustrate this, we adopt a historical perspective to better understand the ways through which soccer, and sports more generally, have become instrumentalized by nation-states in the context of the two World Wars. Moreover, we analyze recent developments regarding quota policies in relation to the emergence of the European Union, with emphasis on the permeability and displacement of frontiers for the free movement of professional football players. We then move to consider the national issue in football by showing that, if the European nation-states tried to homogenize their territories, in order to improve instrumentally the performance, naturalized players were integrated into national teams from the 1920’s onwards. However, not all nation-states adopted the same policy. This is shown through the example of the differential integration of players from colonized territories, as well as by the comparison between France and Germany. Finally, in the light of the concepts of denationalization and transnationalism, we analyze the latest developments in the use of naturalized players by countries such as Qatar and Togo.https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/2802migrationnational identityfootballgeopoliticsinternational relations |
| spellingShingle | Raffaele Poli L’Europe à travers le prisme du football. Nouvelles frontières circulatoires et redéfinition de la nation. Cybergeo migration national identity football geopolitics international relations |
| title | L’Europe à travers le prisme du football. Nouvelles frontières circulatoires et redéfinition de la nation. |
| title_full | L’Europe à travers le prisme du football. Nouvelles frontières circulatoires et redéfinition de la nation. |
| title_fullStr | L’Europe à travers le prisme du football. Nouvelles frontières circulatoires et redéfinition de la nation. |
| title_full_unstemmed | L’Europe à travers le prisme du football. Nouvelles frontières circulatoires et redéfinition de la nation. |
| title_short | L’Europe à travers le prisme du football. Nouvelles frontières circulatoires et redéfinition de la nation. |
| title_sort | l europe a travers le prisme du football nouvelles frontieres circulatoires et redefinition de la nation |
| topic | migration national identity football geopolitics international relations |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/2802 |
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