Rereading geopolitical concepts in the FIFA World Cup

Document Type : مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

Authors

• Kazem Zoghi Barani ¹
• Sirous Ahmadi Nohadani ²
• Reyhane Saleh Abadi ³

¹ Assistant Professor of Political Geography and Geopolitics, Imam Hussein University

² Political Geography (Tarbiat Modares University), Department of Geography, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

³ PhD in political geography and geopolitics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2023.73687.1109

Abstract

Sport organizes and enhances the morale of players and spectators and is an integral part of human life. Sport is influenced by the politics and decisions of political actors and also affects politics at the local, national, regional and international levels, so it is necessary to address it from the perspective of political geography and examine the effective dimensions of sport in both space and politics. And contract analysis. There are constant links between sport, athlete, spectator, place and politics. The FIFA World Cup is a showcase of action and reaction between powers, countries and schools on a national, regional and international scale. When a national football team succeeds in navigating or winning a tournament, political actors use that victory to increase power, win elections, arouse the nation's sentiment, and increase internal solidarity. This research is theoretical in terms of basic purpose and descriptive-analytical method. The findings are provided by referring to library sources (Internet, books, etc.) and 96 cases of overlapping concepts of political geography and the World Cup using the method. Hermonetics has been discovered and identified from scientific documents and news. Findings show the main geopolitical concepts in the World Cup including: countries, players, coaches, spectators, sports media and political actors in national and international dimensions with the concepts of war, peace, patriotism, identity Divergent and convergent forces are geopolitical, geopolitical tensions and isolation. In the field of geopolitics, the concepts of World Cup, FIFA, football players, national team, hosting, match, group, competition for hosting, power, stadium, team tactics and football field with concepts of geopolitical field such as: world geopolitical system, UN, actors Geopolitics, country, geopolitical weight promotion, geopolitical competition, geopolitical region, geopolitical competition, power, geographical space, geopolitical strategy and geopolitical competition space correspond.

Keywords

• FIFA World Cup
• sports geopolitics
• political geography

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