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Football in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe has long functioned
as a carrier of the three "non-normal" socio-political drivers that
were effective below the surface of modernity, including the
official self-image of European political systems, since the second
half of the 20th century: Tribal Politics, Imaginal Politics, and
Contextual Politics. All three are trends that are currently
surfacing prominently on an international and global level. Long
before the return of the now proverbial "Political Tribes" by the
means of populisms and neo-authoritarianisms in societies around
the world, football in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe worked as
a subconscious vehicle of group instincts and political moods that
represented, mirrored, informed and influenced political behavior
and governmental decisions both in the post-WWII communist and
then, after 1989, the neo-capitalist societies located east of the
former iron curtain. Football has always been used by both
governments and their opponents, including the dissident civil
society, to further coherence and to symbolically represent
specific readings of power relations, system ideologies and
history. Football in Central and Eastern Europe was always able to
attract and include large parts of the population, inducing them to
symbolically express protest against the government or to sustain
the "politics from above". Through football politics, aspects of
the area's specific political mechanisms are introduced and
explained.
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