Author(s) :
Hughson, J.
Editors :
Armstrong, G.; Giulianotti, R.
Miscellaneous
:
Entering the field: new perspectives on world football.
1997
pp.239-260
Abstract :
An examination of how the ethnicity of one Australian soccer team, Sydney United (formerly Sydney Croatia) is presented. In particular, the support afforded to it by its fan sub-culture, known as the Bad Blue Boys (BBB), who are generally second generation Australians of Croatian extraction and fiercely nationalistic, is examined. Their culture of support is inspired by the football hooligan groups which follow clubs in Croatia. It explores how the BBB resource this nationalism, in tandem with other, more established Croatian properties, such as shared cultural values and social practices based around the family. The resentment expressed towards the name change and the club's committee which oversaw this change under instruction from the Australian Soccer Federation, is an expression of concern felt by these young men that they might be denied the one social forum where they are able to stand and declare their Croatianness.
ISBN :
1859731988
Record Number :
19981801737
Publisher :
Berg Publisher Ltd
Location of publication :
Oxford
Country of publication :
UK
Language of text :
English
Indexing terms for this abstract:
Organism descriptor(s) :
man
Descriptor(s) :
audiences, clubs, ethnic groups, football, minorities, nationalism, soccer
Identifier(s) :
spectators, societies, English football
Geographical Location(s) :
Australia, Croatia
Broader term(s) :
Homo, Hominidae, primates, mammals, vertebrates, Chordata, animals, eukaryotes, APEC countries, Australasia, Oceania, Commonwealth of Nations, high income countries, OECD Countries, very high Human Development Index countries, Balkans, Southern Europe, Europe, European Union Countries, Mediterranean Region