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Abstract
The aim of this article is to increase the understanding of the global and local contexts in football by finding out what social, cultural and economic dimensions seem to characterize ‘periphery’ football. This study applies figurational sociological perspective, which is applicable to the research on globalization processes and sport. The sources utilized are publications on the history and sociology of football as well as interviews with football practitioners. First, a theoretical framework of the global football figuration is advanced. Second, applying the constructed framework, the concept of periphery football country is discussed. It was found in accordance with previous research that instead of the rigid conceptualization of peripheral football, the various developmental patterns of countries should be studied. Third, the diverse development paths of Finnish and Hungarian football are analysed and compared. It is suggested that in spite of being peripheral, both countries have been increasingly integrated into the global football figuration.
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Notes
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5. Szabados, ‘Labdarugoklubok strategiai’, 60.
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8. See the works of these authors in the bibliography.
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18. Dunning, Sport Matters, 19.
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28. Andrews and Ritzer, ‘Grobal in the Sporting Glocal’, 33.
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36. Malcolm, ‘Football Business and Football Communities’, 103.
37. Dunning, ‘Civilizing Sports’, 17.
38. Giulianotti, Football: A Sociology of the Global Game, 24.
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40. Itkonen and Nevala, ‘Popular game in Father Christmas Land?’, 576.
41. Eliasson, ‘European Football Market’, 387.
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48. Social Science Dictionary, ‘Periphery Countries’.
49. Bandyopadhyay and Mallick, Fringe Nations, 1; and Darby, Africa, Football and FIFA, 165.
50. Elias, ‘Essay on Sport and Violence’, 156.
51. Eliasson, ‘European Football Market’, 387.
52. Krausz, ‘A magyar futball “szetglobalizalasa”’, 18.
53. Dunning, Malcolm and Waddington, ‘Figurational Sociology and the Development of Modern Sport’, 192.
54. Maguire, Global Sport, 49.
55. Ibid., 18.
56. Darby, Africa, Football and FIFA, 167.
57. Harvey, Rail, and Thibault, ‘Globalization and Sport’, 264.
58. Darby, Africa, Football and FIFA, 173.
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60. Giulianotti and Robertson, Globalization & Football, 40.
61. Maguire, Global Sport, 90.
62. Kuper and Szymanski, Soccernomics, 36.
63. Schneider, ‘Factors Governing Success in International Football’, 7.
64. Lanfranchi and Taylor, Moving with the Ball, 225.
65. Pierpoint, ‘Business Strategies for a New Football Economy’, 30.
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67. Bandyopadhyay and Mallick, Fringe Nations, 1.
68. Ibid., 7.
69. Eliasson, ‘European Football Market’, 387, 395; and Krausz, ‘A magyar futball “szetglobalizalasa”’ 17.
70. Giulianotti and Robertson, ‘Globalization, Football and Transnationalism’, 171; and Krausz, ‘A Magyar Futball “Szetglobalizalasa”’, 17.
71. Schiller, Communication and Cultural Domination; and Giulianotti and Robertson, Globalization & Football, 39.
72. Maguire, Global Sport, 93.
73. Giulianotti and Robertson, Globalization & Football, 40.
74. Darby, Africa, Football, and FIFA, 163.
75. Maguire, Global Sport, 13; and Eliasson, ‘European Football Market’, 386.
76. Eliasson, ‘European Football Market’, 397.
77. Featherstone, Undoing Culture, 110.
78. World Bank, ‘GDP per capita, PPP’.
79. Poli, Besson and Ravenel, ‘Demographic Polarisation of European Football’.
80. Itkonen and Nevala, ‘Jalkapallo, maailma ja Suomi’, 14.
81. Itkonen and Nevala, ‘Popular Game in Father Christmas Land?’, 579.
82. Kortelainen, ‘Jalkapallo-Suomen maantiede’, 81.
83. Itkonen and Nevala, ‘Jalkapallo, maailma ja Suomi’, 20.
84. Helsingin Sanomat, ‘Veikkausliigaseurojen budjetit kaudella’, 2012.
85. Dunning, Sport Matters, 115.
86. Szerovay, ‘On the Way to Professionalism’.
87. Kozma and Nagy, Nagy penz - kis foci, 6.
88. Dunning, Sport Matters, 115.
89. Molnar, ‘Hungarian Football’, 306.
90. Hadas, ‘Football and Social Identity’, 58.
91. Ibid., 61.
92. Kozma and Nagy, Nagy Penz - kis Foci, 5.
93. Krausz, ‘A Magyar futball “szetglobalizalasa”’, 15.
94. Geza Roka, club director of Debreceni VSC, in discussion with the author, 3 April 2013.
95. Ibid.
96. Molnar, ‘The Structural Changes of the Hungarian Sport Life’, 72.
97. Kozma and Nagy, Nagy Penz - kis Foci, 2.
98. Geza Roka, club director of Debreceni VSC, in discussion with the author, 3 April 2013; and Krausz, ‘A Magyar futball “szetglobalizalasa”’, 13.
99. Kortelainen, ‘Jalkapallo-Suomen maantiede’, 72.
100. Itkonen and Nevala, ‘Popular Game in Father Christmas Land?’, 572.
101. Itkonen, ‘Jalkapalloilu paikallisena luokka- ja lajikamppailuna’, 109.
102. Itkonen and Nevala, ‘Jalkapallo, maailma ja Suomi’, 13.
103. Ibid., 14.
104. Ibid., 20.
105. Villgren, ‘Majoukkueen kannattajat’, 164.
106. Molnar, ‘Hungarian Football’, 313.
107. Hadas, Football and Social Identity: The Case of Hungary in the Twentieth Century, 52.
108. Molnar, Hungarian Football: A Socio-historical Overview, 304.
109. Dóczi, ‘Sport and National Identity’, 167.
110. Molnar, ‘Hungarian Football’, 307.
111. Molnar, ‘The Structural Changes of the Hungarian Sport Life’, 72.
112. Molnar, ‘Mapping Migrations’, 464.
113. Dóczi, ‘Sport and National Identity’, 169.
114. Foldesi, Jakabhazy, and Nagy, ‘Hungarian Sport’; and Dóczi, ‘Sport and National Identity’, 178.
115. Itkonen and Nevala, ‘Jalkapallo, maailma ja Suomi’, 19.
116. Itkonen and Nevala, ‘Popular Game in Father Christmas Land?’, 580.
117. Ibid., 577.
118. Molnar, ‘The Structural Changes of the Hungarian Sport Life’, 76.
119. Molnar, ‘Hungarian Football’, 305.
120. Geza Roka, club director of Debreceni VSC, in discussion with the author, 3 April 2013.