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Football Italia - Italian Football in an Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
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Football Italia - Italian Football in an Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
Series: Globalizing Sport Studies
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Football has undergone a period of transformation over the last
thirty years. Despite these global processes, different national
leagues have adapted in different ways. After an initial period of
success directly after Italia '90, Italian football has gone
through a period of sustained crisis. It has been blighted by
financial mismanagement, corruption scandals and fan violence. This
has impacted Italy's ability to compete on a global stage. Football
Italia accounts for the development of Italian football in relation
to the wider global transformations impacting football and
addresses the reasons for Serie A's initial success and current
malaise. Theoretically, this book locates Italian football within
the wider power network of the state and how this has impacted
political engagement. After an historical overview of the Italian
political economy, Football Italia highlights how football is part
of the wider political network. Football clubs are owned by
powerful businessmen (and they are all men) who are also
politicians. This centralisation of power within a small hegemonic
group inhibits change. Within this broader structure, wider
corruption scandals continue; from regular match-fixing scandals to
doping. Meanwhile, stadiums are crumbling and police
over-aggressive. It is within this context that we must place the
fans. Both the ultras and supporters who attend official
supporters' clubs are disaffected and without the power to change
the status quo. Consequently, Italian football has been in decline
throughout the 21st century.
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