{"id":654,"date":"2014-01-15T01:32:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T01:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/?p=654"},"modified":"2014-01-15T01:36:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T01:36:28","slug":"jordan-adams-pcq-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/2014\/01\/15\/jordan-adams-pcq-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Adams PCQ 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Us and Them U.S. Ambivalence Toward the World Cup and American Nationalism<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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National Identity and sport<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

This section of the article discusses the ways in which people feel connected to each other and build and maintain their national identities. The author claims that national identity is built through having similar reactions to different events in their lives, that national communities are strengthened by their past and traditions, as people of the same nation continue to experience similar experiences in life they begin to further identify themselves as part of a nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat binds the representation of teams and fans together is the tendency to present style as a characteristic of that nation more generally. In this sense, collective performance and shared understandings of sport become framed as indicative, or \u201cindexical\u201d. (137)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I pulled this quote out because it makes the reader think about how different groups of people come together to celebrate one goal. I didn\u2019t limit this idea to soccer or different nations either it could be something as simple as a student body coming together in support of a JV basketball team. It\u2019s still a shared experience that unties the fans with their respective team; the fans are still trying to present a certain image of how they believed their school should be perceived. The same could be said on a bigger stage on an international level.<\/p>\n

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American Exceptionalism<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

This section discusses how when sports were becoming more popular and modernized from the 1970\u2019s until the 1930\u2019s there really wasn’t any space left for soccer to gain a foothold within American sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaseball, American football, basketball, and (to a lesser degree) hockey became institutionalized during this era and, as a result, came to satiate this space. Thus, soccer\u2019s absence, even in the present, is explained as the result of this historical \u201ccrowding out\u201d. (138)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This quote stood out to me because it reminded me of some of the topics we discussed in my history of American sports class. We went into a lot of detail about the construction of organized football and its presence in North Eastern colleges. Sports in general were seen as a leisurely activity that really shouldn’t be taking up the time of college students, or that\u2019s what the administration thought. These ideas shifted when there was a certain amount of prestige that came along with sporting victories. American football was also capable of bringing in lots of money so universities were more willing to back it.<\/p>\n

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Differentiating Us From Them: The United States Versus the World<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

I wanted to talk briefly about this section and discuss the fact that the soccer obsessed countries were so passionate about the sport that it generally affected the way that people lived their lives. The fact that soccer was able to change local laws in Sweden, elections in Mexico, and cultural norms in Japan is astounding. The only law I can think of that was changed due to an overwhelming amount of passion (or hate) for Jack Johnson that made it illegal for him to travel with his prostitutes over state lines.<\/p>\n

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Indifferent America<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Just wanted to pull this quote.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor most youths, soccer means Mom dropping them at practice in the mini-van and picking them up two hours later. This helped to explain why \u201cmillions of American children have grown up playing the game only to abandon it\u201d.\u201d (143)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately I do fall into that category as soccer was one of the first sports I started playing as a kid. I wanted to pull this quote so that we could discuss the reasons why kids who play soccer at a young age don\u2019t have any loyalty to the sport? it\u2019s not as if the option to play soccer disappears at some point while kids are growing up, yet leaving the sport of soccer to play football and hockey was much easier for me to do then choosing to drop both of those sports so that I could focus on basketball.<\/p>\n

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Questions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  • How can US soccer\u00a0associations\u00a0work together with the media to make soccer a more relevant sport in\u00a0the US?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Is the key to making soccer a relevant sport in the US bringing more soccer to young kids? how can soccer leagues work together to keep kids interested in playing the sport?<\/li>\n
  • How successful does the MLS plan to be if it understands it is a professional league in a nation that considers soccer to be a foreign sport?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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