It could have been a Clásico, but the Spanish Supercup final will finally be a “Derbi”, Madrid’s Derby, the other most iconic Spanish game. The 2020 edition of the “Supercopa de España” will see city rivals Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid face off in Sunday’s final, played at 1:00pm. However, it will not take… Read More »
Para esta semana discutiremos la idea del fútbol como ritual, propuesta por el antropólogo francés Christian Bromberger, en dialogo con la película Zidane, un retrato del siglo XXI. Bromberger ha estudiado durante años los partidos de fútbol y el comportamiento de sus fans. En su libro en francés, Le match de football, el antropólogo se… Read More »
The French anthropologist Christian Bromberger has studied and written about football games as a kind of ritual that provides an “inexhaustible terrain of interpretation” for those who participate and watch. In his French-language book “Le match de football,” he studied how crowds experienced and interpreted games in the European football heartlands of Marseille, Milan, and… Read More »
Now that we’re coming to the end of the year, the Champions league gets closer to the final in Kiev between the two greatest teams of Europe this year. So who are our contenders? In the red corner, we have Liverpool and Roma. Both teams have showcased their attacking prowess and defensive shortcomings throughout… Read More »
Heading into the knock-out stages of the Champions League last week, the Real Madrid versus Paris Saint-Germain match was the most anticipated. Soccer fans globally indeed felt that it was unfair for two of the most hyped teams to meet at such an early stage of the competition. Going into this fixture, Unai Emery’s PSG… Read More »
Real Madrid continued to struggle today in La Liga, as they have now dropped more points after 18 games than they did all of last season. Today marked the first time Villareal had ever won at the Bernabéu, thanks to Pablo Fornals’ game winning goal in the 87th minute. The loss puts Madrid 16 points… Read More »
Dans son livre Le Match de football paru en 1995, l’anthropologue français Christian Bromberger analyse les passions soulevées par le football, plus particulièrement dans les villes de Marseille, Turin et Naples. Il résume les conclusions de son étude dans un article en anglais, “Football as World-View and as Ritual.” Dans ce texte, il décrit le football… Read More »
Nel suo libro La partita di calcio. Etnologia di una passione, l’antropologo francese Christian Bromberger interpreta la partita di calcio come una sorta di rito paradossale attraverso cui la folla dei tifosi si riconosce e si celebra come una collettività omogenea, anche se con modalità contraddittorie. Il “rito” calcistico si presta così “a una pluralità… Read More »
En “Football as a world-view and as ritual”, el antropólogo francés Christian Bromberger (1995) explica las razones de la gran capacidad de convocatoria del futbol. Vinculando el gran éxito de este deporte con el hecho de que evoca los valores de las sociedades modernas (como la recompensa al mérito colectivo e individual), Bromberger también destaca… Read More »
The French anthropologist Christian Bromberger has studied and written about football games as a kind of ritual that provides an “inexhaustible terrain of interpretation” for those who participate and watch. In his French-language book “Le match de football,” he studied how crowds experienced and interpreted games in the European football heartlands of Marseille, Milan, and… Read More »
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