‘One Is Not Born, But Rather Becomes a Fan’: The Socialization of Female Football Fans—A Case Study in Denmark

Pfister, Gertrud; Mintert, Svenja-Maria; Lenneis, Verena

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1_10

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“…Recent empirical studies in Europe have tended to show that family members (Dixon, 2013;Pope and Kirk, 2014;Pfister et al, 2018 Sandvoss andBall, 2018) and peers (Dixon, 2013;Pfister et al, 2018) are the most important agents that socialise individuals to support their local football clubs. However, the situation is different for transnational fans.…”

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“…The rarity of live matches being broadcast in Hong Kong before the late 1990s may explain why it was common to find relatively older interviewees emphasising the importance of a particular match or matches in making them become supporters of a specific club. When live European football was not frequently broadcast, those rare live matches could have an impact similar to what first trips to the stadium have on 'local' fans, when the uniqueness of the event played a vital part in the fan socialisation process (see Pfister et al, 2018).…”

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How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity

Lee

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Despite the importance of transnational fans to the globalisation of European football, there have not been many studies that aim to understand why they support specific overseas clubs. On the basis of qualitative interviews with transnational fans in Hong Kong and supplemented by findings from an online fan survey, I argue that most of them lack genuine choices when choosing their favourite overseas clubs. Even when all English Premier League matches are shown live in Hong Kong and with information about many European clubs available on the Internet, transnational fans tend to support teams that they were familiar with when they were still young, and clubs that star players play for. Such clubs are usually the richest ones that can help them achieve success on the pitch. Also, family members and peers can be influential to the origin of football fandom, but there is little pressure to support the same overseas club as their family members or peers. The choices of transnational fans based in Hong Kong should also be understood by taking the historical context of the city into account. Such findings suggest that globalisation has freed Hong Kong football fans from geographical constraints, but the individualisation thesis in the late modern era needs to be qualified since the wealth of European clubs and fans’ immediate social context do often have important impacts on their decision to support an overseas club.

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Section: Origins Of Football Fandommentioning

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How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity

Lee

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…However, sporting success and sport events can also create (positive) arousal (Uhm et al, 2020) among spectators and television viewers, bringing different people together to celebrate (Green & Chalip, 1998) and socialize (Pfister et al, 2018), which can have a positive effect on the mental dimension of health. Moreover, the volunteering positions offered by hosting events (Doherty, 2009) potentially affect the people involved through the creation of relational goods (Becchetti et al, 2008) that are produced, for example, through emotional support and belonging to a group (Wicker & Downward, 2020).…”

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Does international elite sporting success or hosting major events affect self-rated health? An examination of potential positive externalities related to international sporting tournaments

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Jakobsen

2021

Managing Sport and Leisure

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Research questionIt is a common expectation among politicians, civil servants and sport managers that hosting a major sporting event or achieving international elite sport success yields a variety of positive externalities grounded in the 'Virtuous Cycle of Elite Sport and Events' model. However, over the years various studies have shown that this model is not necessarily an accurate depiction of reality. This paper adds to existing research by testing whether elite sport success or hosting a major sport event can have any positive effects on citizens' health. Research methods By employing multilevel regression models to nine rounds of the European SocialSurvey-consisting of individual-level data from 2002 to 2019, covering 37 countries, 219 country-survey-years, and almost 400,000 respondents-we test whether healthrelated impacts of elite sport success and hosting major sport events can be identified. Results and FindingsThe model output from our regressions does not indicate that sporting success or hosting major sport events contributes to better health. ImplicationsThe results question the 'Virtuous Cycle of Elite Sport and Events' model and stipulate that politicians, practitioners, and sports managers should be aware of overestimating potential positive externalities from elite sport.

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Another ‘barra’ Is Possible: Women, Feminism and ‘barras’ in Mexico

Bucio

2022

Women’s Football in Latin America

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‘One Is Not Born, But Rather Becomes a Fan’: The Socialization of Female Football Fans—A Case Study in Denmark

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity

How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity

Does international elite sporting success or hosting major events affect self-rated health? An examination of potential positive externalities related to international sporting tournaments

Another ‘barra’ Is Possible: Women, Feminism and ‘barras’ in Mexico

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