On correlation between football and war: social and historical view

Bstract. The correlation between football and war is presented from the social and historical point of view. The necessity of such correlation is determined by the absence of social and historical analysis of sports functioning on the football example in the modern conditions of social development with progressive acts of hostility, social and political tension, and aggression that poses a real threat to existence of football, other popular sports, and the whole Olympic Movement as well. Such research methods as analysis, integration of information of specific literature, comparison, and examination of electronic resources were used. The research was carried out on the base of Belgorod National Research University (Russian Federation), University of Baghdad (Republic of Iraq) during 2015-2018. In whole 157 different sources are studied. Considering the correlation between football and war the historical facts are given that testify football as a unique social and historical means of interaction between football teams during time of peace and also as a means of hostility acts, conflicts and even acts of war. In addition to that football has become the means of temporary compromise between hostilities, demonstration of nobility and hardiness, and sometimes the cause of warmongering. The received data has been analyzed for the first time. The results of the research testify that football in social and historical context goes beyond training and competition activities. Social tendencies influence on the system of sports activity. Due to that sports became the tool of interaction between hostilities (teams or countries), prerequisites and consequences of which have obvious or hidden political, economical, ideological nature. The results of the research contribute to the widening of insights about social functions of sports in modern society and initiate new directions of history, sociology, and sports theory researches.

war, sports, football, correlation, peculiarities

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