Introduction:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n -Due to the media in society, it is difficult to watch a sporting event completely disconnected from the media.<\/p>\n – The combination of sports and the media are a key component to globalization. For example, you watch on a day-to-day basis the interaction of players from different countries on the pitch, this type of connection echoes to the millions of viewers that see these acts.<\/p>\n – But, with the use of media, both positive and negative acts on the pitch can be amplified, such as Zidane\u2019s incident.<\/p>\n -Race is \u201ca relatively easily activated, visceral signifier of difference, although at highly charge sporting moments some divisive \u2018isms\u2019 may be temporarily obscured by the loci of identification why reinforcing others.\u201d(Rowe, 356)<\/p>\n A short note on \u2018race\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n -More globalization in the world multiplies problems of racial compatibility as national identity, cultural identity, and ethnic identity become less defined.<\/p>\n \u2018Racists are not invited\u2019: The rise and fall of \u2018Zizou\u2019:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n -While Zidane was wrong in head-butting Materazzi, and trash talking really is apart of soccer, the accepted use of racial and sexist slurs towards a player such as Zidane is completely unacceptable. France for many years has been highly criticized due to the fact that their players are multiracial, so these types of verbal attacks towards Zidane must have been extremely personal and controversial.<\/p>\n – Again, this incident falls of FIFA as well as many other football organizations that simply do not firmly enforce anti-racist movements due to the fact that racist acts have been committed periodically throughout the past few decades.<\/p>\n – Football is the most widely played sport in the world, and with the free movement of players, it is evident that this sport is where the most amount of racial issues will stem from.<\/p>\n Lip reading and the search for \u2018hard words\u2019:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n -Materazzi\u2019s use of language towards Zidane is just the type of ignorant gesture that unruly fans use in matches to cut down players of different races and ethnicities. Zidane is called a terrorist simply due to his racial background, a rash and brutal accusation that was captured by the media for millions to see. Again, this shows how the secretly aggressive and chippy game of soccer is a means of conveying racial tensions between countries.<\/p>\n -There is the belief that allowing migrant youth players to join development programs in England are affected the success of the English national team.<\/p>\n – But, there is always the potential for players to represent a different country than where they were born. And while England hasn\u2019t received many foreign players, numerous other nations such as Portugal have attained various players such as Pepe that chose to represent Portugal even though he was born in Brazil as well as Jerome Boateng who represents Germany even though he was born in Ghana and his brother plays for Ghana.<\/p>\n Acculturation as an experiential facet of glocalization:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n -Acculturation seems to be a type of globalization in the sense that players of different races are overlapping with various cultures of differing nations while holding onto their indigenous cultures and meshing the two together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stages of the global: Media, sport, racialization and the last temptation of Zinedine Zidane Introduction: -Due to the media in society, it is difficult to watch a sporting event completely disconnected from the media. – The combination of sports and the media are a key component to globalization. For example, you watch on a day-to-day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u2018Glocal Boys\u2019: Exploring experiences of acculturation amongst migrant youth footballers in Premier League academics<\/h3>\n