While rivalry is embedded in any sporting event or performance,
soccer, the world's most popular mass spectator sport, has been an
emblem of such rivalries since its inception as an organized sport.
Some of these rivalries grow to become long-term and perennial by
their nature, extent, impact and legacy, from the local to the
global level. They represent identities based on widely diverse
affiliations of human life-locality, region, nation, continent,
community, class, culture, religion, ethnicity, and so on. Yet, at
times, such rivalries transcend barriers of space and time, where
soccer-clubs, -nations, -personalities, -organizations, -styles and
-fans float and compete with intriguing identities. The present
volume brings into focus some of the most fascinating and enduring
rivalries in the world of soccer. It attempts to encapsulate,
analyse and reconstruct those rivalries-between nations, between
clubs, between personalities, between styles of play, between
fandoms, and between organizations-in a historical perspective in
relation to diverse identities, competing ideologies, contestations
of power, psychologies of attachment, bonds of loyalty, notions of
enmity, articulations of violence, and affinities of fan
culture-some of the core manifestations of sporting rivalry. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Soccer & Society.
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