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Franklin Foer's How Soccer Explains The World

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Franklin Foer's How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization is without a doubt a decent book as far as its development towards the arguments made in the content. Clearly the text can't be referred to as the best piece because of its degree constraint being a sporting topic pondered an economic plan, which is tied with individual hobbies. However, Franklin Foer should be credited towards the hard work he did to prove his points. Foer’s main idea in the novel is that soccer is an essential piece in making the world the way it is today. The main point of novel that Foer is trying to convey is that soccer is a metaphor for globalization. In addition, soccer has a number of natural associations in numerous communities
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Soccer is a beautiful game in which cultures unite to play and set aside differences. The field is a contact zone, which is a "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other" (Pratt). The dominant and subdominant cultures of the team clash to see what kind of strategy will work to win the match. A form of transculturation occurred in the process. The phenomenon of merging and converging cultures.

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Because it makes you believe in yourself, because there are players besides being idols are great people, because the one that plays better does not win, but one that left his heart in the field, because soccer is the only religion that has no atheists, Because if you do not feel the game for soccer you wouldn’t understand it, because knowing that you lost is the first step to a victory, because is a passion that make us happy, because is more than just a game, because no matter the time or the place soccer is played everywhere, because we all dream of making the best move or the best goal in a match, because there is nothing else cuter than winning, because even if we lose we always have a rematch a second chance, because it is the sport in which your friends can become enemies and enemies can become friends, because nothing is said until the end of 90 minutes, because it takes more than talent to succeed, because there are players who leave everything on the field, because it is a passion that lies in our hearts, for such a simple object as the ball can make millions of people happy, for this and more soccer is the most beautiful sport in the

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