Identity, football and Croatian national team members from the diaspora
2016
In this paper the author briefly presents his fieldwork results, with an
emphasis on studying the relationship between football and the construction
of children’s, grandson’s and great-grandson’s national identities in
first-generation Croatian migrants. Specifically, the research focuses on
Croatian national football team members from the diaspora who rather choose
to play for their “imagined homeland” than the national team of their country
of birth. If we agree that one of sport’s functions is, among other things,
to act as a mechanism of national solidarity - promoting the sense of
identity and unity - football proves to be an ideal field for studying the
symbolic dimensions of ethnicity, discursive shaping of identity and
practices trough which athletic (and) national loyalty is manifested. Through
the coding of interview transcripts, organizing data into categories and
analyzing conducted interviews, the author examines the dynamic relationship
between expressing national identity and personal choices of the individual
as to which national team he should join.
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