This Is Your Brains On Sports By Andrew Bertoli

The Fifa World Cup is the real deal when it comes to soccer games. Because these games are international, many view them as a series of friendly matches that have the ability to create peace between countries. However, it is quite the opposite. These games have shown to awaken the violent side of sports fans due to the instance international tensions, passion, and desire to win. The Fight or Flight response occurs when one feel that they pressured or threatened they either run or forcefully resist the threat. This response is one of the causes international hate and violent actions among nations. In the book, This is Your Brains on Sports the authors L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers explain the whole physiology setting of the sports world.

In this article Andrew Bertoli conducted a study and used an international relation employee to the fan’s militarized interstate disputes, or MIDs that a group display when they feel threatened, pressured, or forced against another nation. The resulted of his study concluded that when two nations who don’t like each other are forced to be in the same place and are against each other, especially when the military and other law enforcements are present the MIDs increased dramatically, and violence couldn’t be avoided. An example that Bertoli documented was when Egypt played Algeria in the 1989 World Cup. The rivalry was so bad between the two nations that

When one has a passion towards someone or something they are willing to anything to protect it. Similar to the American football players, the Latin countries are loved and viewed by their fans as heroes. In their academic essay, “Soccer and national culture: estimating the impact of violence on 22 lads after a ball” the authors, Joé Cuestaa, and Camilo Bóhorquez wrote: “soccer players are elevated to the ranks of national heroes following decisive goals or performances in critical games. National pride is proportional to the success of local clubs and national teams, that being truth across the world. For many, soccer is a ‘religion’” (148). Though the essay the authors explain that many of the Latin players grew up in violent settings and therefore are prone to act violently during their games. Because they are viewed as role models to their fans, especially children, feel that they are allowed to act violently when they feel that their role model that the look up to, and the team that they are passionate about is being threatened. This ties back to the idea that we mimic our heroes and our love for them causes us to take irrational actions when we think that they are under