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In the aftermath of the First World War, the practice of football underwent rapid development in ... more In the aftermath of the First World War, the practice of football underwent rapid development in continental Europe as a professional sport as well as a new diplomatic instrument. This article aims to analyse the role and the involvement of Swiss football leaders in this context of commercialisation, mediatisation and politicisation, from the 1930s to 1954, when in the same year Swiss officials organised the World Cup and held the Basel congress, which laid the first stone of a European governing body: the Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA). The analysis of those officials’ involvement stresses the importance of the role played by Switzerland in the administration of the game (the headquarters of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association have been based in Zurich since 1932, the UEFA moved to Bern in 1960), in the organisation of a great number of international games and competitions for clubs (Coupe of Nations in 1930) and national teams (World Cup in 1954), but also more broadly in the international relations, where sport – and especially football – was increasingly used as a tool of diplomacy in changing geopolitical configuration.
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Contemporary European History, 2020
review article of:
Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns, eds., Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statec... more review article of:
Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns, eds., Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014). 496 pp. (hb), £36,95, ISBN:
978-0813145648.
Barbara J. Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
(Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2006). 288 pp. (hb), £60.95, ISBN: 9780674023260.
Jenifer Parks, The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017). 205 pp. (hb), $95, ISBN: 978-1498541183.
Toby C. Rider, Cold War Games: Propaganda, The Olympics and U.S. Foreign Policy (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2016). 256 pp. (hb), $95, ISBN: 978-0-252-04023-8.
J. Simon Rofe, ed., Sport and Diplomacy: Games Within Games (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018). 288 pp. (hb), £80, ISBN: 978-1-5261-3105-8.
Damion L. Thomas, Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2012). 232 pp. (hb), $60, ISBN: 978-0-252-03717-7.
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This special issue consists of five articles. The first one is by Nicola Sbetti and broaches the ... more This special issue consists of five articles. The first one is by Nicola Sbetti and broaches the as yet hardly investigated case of Trieste, a territory divided between Italy and Yugoslavia after the Second World War that some authorities wanted to see recognised on the international stage. After taking into consideration the status of sport in international relations during those post-war years, the author examines how the IOC (International Olympic Committee), FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) and the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) faced this delicate question.
In the second article, Heather Dichter addresses two events that created conflict within FIS (the International Ski Federation) in this first part of the Cold War: the arrival of East Germany at the beginning of the 1940s, and the non-participation of this country in the Alpine World Ski Championships in Chamonix in 1962. The author insists on certain States’ use of sport to fight against the other bloc. In that sense, the FIS is here perceived as a battleground for the two blocs, and Dichter’s contribution highlights that, despite apolitical discourses from the main sports leaders, in time of high tension on the international stage, the Cold War easily infiltrated the sports organisations’ arenas and tended to get the upper hand.
The third article is the fruit of Georgia Cervin, Claire Nicolas, Sylvain Dufraisse, Anaïs Bohon and Grégory Quin’s collaboration. They seek to reveal through their analyses the first elements of governance of a still widely unknown institution (the FIG – Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique), whose protagonists, successful gymnasts and various competitions were largely affected by the Cold War. This contribution also aims to offer a ‘modern’ approach of institutional history, insisting on different aspects related to the structure and the governance of the organisation and on the manner through which its leaders have tried to neutralise the impact of the Cold War.
Along the same lines, but exploring another facet of these organisations, Jürgen Mittag and Philippe Vonnard address the case of UEFA. By analysing the organisation’s official publications (the Bulletin officiel and the secretary’s report), in particular the vocabulary used, the subjects covered and the photographs published, the two authors highlight the way UEFA, an organisation involving countries coming from both blocs, wishes to appear as a panEuropean organisation. This contribution allows for a reflexion on the motivations of the Union’s main leaders and calls for future research to investigate the leaders’ incentives to engage in sport on an international level.
By contrast, Florys Castan-Vicente deals with the case of an organisation that did not transcend the Cold War. The author broaches the case of a little known entity: the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW). Castan-Vicente explains the reasons behind this organisation’s creation and its first developments. Moreover, she shows that its first leaders were indeed motivated by the idea of creating international exchanges, but their anticommunism, without a doubt, prevented countries from the Eastern bloc from joining the organisation. In this sense, this entity highlights how cultural, scientific but also sports organisations were used as weapons by each bloc.
These contributions have the advantage of presenting different situations and thus seriously prepare the ground for the topic of the Cold War’s influence on international organisations. Indeed, various grounds are dealt with in this issue, since the objects of study are international and European sports federations (Sbetti, Dichter, Cervin et al., Mittag and Vonnard) and a parastatal organisation (Castan-Vicente). In addition, the contributors also develop several approaches here, whether it be the manner the Cold War-related cases are negotiated within one (Dichter) or several federations (Sbetti); the development of an organisation’s governance despite a disadvantageous
context (Cervin et al.); the organisation’s care to offer an image that aims to transcend this particular context (Mittag and Vonnard); or else the impossibility, or unwillingness, to overcome this context until the political setting allows it (Castan-Vicente).
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Dès la fin du xixe siècle, l’espace européen est le cadre d’un développement précoce des échanges... more Dès la fin du xixe siècle, l’espace européen est le cadre d’un développement précoce des échanges sportifs et tient un rôle pionnier dans l’organisation internationale des sports. L’homogénéisation des pratiques et la mise en place de compétitions continentales, processus commencé dans l’entre-deux-guerres et qui se renforce après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, a comme effet la constitution d’un espace sportif européen. Touchant autant les élites que les masses et le produit d’une intense médiatisation, les sports ont un impact qui dépasse largement les stades et permettent aux Européens de se rencontrer et in fine de mieux se connaître.
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Since 1990, football history has become increasingly important within the field of sport science,... more Since 1990, football history has become increasingly important within the field of sport science, yet few studies have centred on the Europeanization of the game from the interwar period onwards. This period saw the creation of a sovereign institution dedicated to European football, the establishment of specific rules about players’ transfers and contracts and, in particular, the development of competitions.
This book examines the development of European football between 1905 and 1995 from a transnational perspective. It offers a space for discussion to both early-career and established historians from a range of different countries, leading to a better understanding of the crucial turning points in the Europeanization of the game. The volume aims to promote valuable new reflections on the role of football in the European integration process
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On June 22, 1974, East and West German national football teams met for the fi rst international ... more On June 22, 1974, East and West German national football teams met for the fi rst international game of the FIFA World Cup. Played in Hamburg, the game ended with an East German victory of 1-0, after a goal scored by Jürgen Sparwasser. This game symbolized how sport could subvert international and diplomatic oppositions during the Cold War and demonstrated how sport was used as a tool of diplomacy. This book explores original studies on sport during the Cold War in Europe. Three perspectives have been developed. First, the book gives new insight into the use of sport by European states as a tool of diplomacy. Second, the researchers show how sport institutions could counterbalance Cold War divisions throughout the period. Finally, the book demonstrates how sport on the continent acted globally, enlarging the framework of the narrative and considering Europe in its worldwide context. The authors (members of RERIS network) explore the importance of considering the role of sport during the Cold War in Europe not only as an arena of competition but also as an instrument for rapprochement and mutual understanding.
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In the last two decades, the historical analysis of European integration has become more differen... more In the last two decades, the historical analysis of European integration has become more differentiated, as several research reports have convincingly revealed. In particular, social and cultural approaches have received growing attention. Hence, some authors have started to focus on the history of European football and particularly on the origins and development of Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Against the backdrop of these studies and the current status of research, this article seeks to analyse the questions of whether and how far UEFA, as a societal actor, has contributed in its formative phase to an increasingly transnational orientation in European football. Apart from the competitions on the pitch and the different conflicts of national associations, this article investigates the extent that UEFA has fostered transnational cooperation and communication that contributes, in the long run, to a Pan-European collective consciousness. One that transgresses Western or Eastern political alliances. The research has been completed by reading various mainstream and sports European newspapers, and two interviews have been conducted with Pierre Delaunay, general secretary of UEFA from 1955 to 1959, and with Jacques Ferran, former journalist of French newspaper L’Equipe.
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On March the 2nd 1967, the French sports newspaper, L’Equipe, indicated the participation of the ... more On March the 2nd 1967, the French sports newspaper, L’Equipe, indicated the participation of the club of the Girondins de Bordeaux in a new European tournament called: the European Market Cup. According to this periodical, the competition was to be composed of teams who finished second in the Belgian, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Luxemburger championships and would be supported by the European Community.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the reasons which explained the investment of the EC in a European football competition. If we want to focus on a unknown cases, this research also reveals the interest of the EC in the sport domain.
The study is based on documents from different archives (historical archives from European Union, Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe, Union of European football associations and the Belgian football federation). In addition, it uses materials from general French sports newspapers and interviews with former EC collaborators.
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This paper explores a topic underrepresented in the recent spate of research about European sport... more This paper explores a topic underrepresented in the recent spate of research about European sport competitions: the withdraws tournament. Here we focus particularly on an innovative project developed in 1967 by the French press manager, Marcel Leclerc.
The article examines the institutional dialogues pertaining to the prospects of the tournament, especially the defensive position of UEFA’s leaders about this idea. It argues that the exchanges revealed UEFA's ambition to reinforce their monopoly over organising European competitions. This research draws on documents from the UEFA’s archives and the French magazines L’Equipe and France football.
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Comment la Ligue des champions est-elle devenue un événement sportif et médiatique de dimension e... more Comment la Ligue des champions est-elle devenue un événement sportif et médiatique de dimension européenne ? Philippe Vonnard et Léonard Laborie retracent la genèse de cette success story, en remontant aux origines de la diffusion télévisuelle de la Coupe des clubs champions européens, créée en 1955. L’UEFA, organisatrice de la coupe, et l’UER, chargée de sa diffusion, ont des réticences croisées : cette retransmission ferait-elle baisser la pratique sportive et l’assistance aux matchs, et donc les revenus des clubs ? Pouvait-on réellement considérer le football masculin comme un programme éducatif et porteur d’entente européenne ? Les différends sont peu à peu surmontés par la négociation dans les années 1960, quand les deux organismes réalisent que l’organisation conjointe de cet événement va dans le sens de leurs intérêts bien compris.
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Dès la fin du XIX siècle, l’espace européen est le cadre d’un développement précoce des échanges ... more Dès la fin du XIX siècle, l’espace européen est le cadre d’un développement précoce des échanges sportifs et tient un rôle pionnier dans l’organisation internationale des sports. L’homogénéisation des pratiques et la mise en place de compétitions continentales, processus commencé dans l’entre-deux-guerres et qui se renforce après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, a comme effet la constitution d’un espace sportif européen. Touchant autant les élites que les masses et le produit d’une intense médiatisation, les sports ont un impact qui dépasse largement les stades et permettent aux Européens de se rencontrer et in fine de mieux se connaître.
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ABSTRACT Since the 1920s, many European exchanges began to exist in the domain of football. Howev... more ABSTRACT Since the 1920s, many European exchanges began to exist in the domain of football. However, it was during the 1950s that a European scale was established primarily due to the creation of UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) in 1954, which quickly organized the first European tournament in the game’s history– The European Champions Clubs’ Cup. The present essay argues that Europeanization of the game has to be understood in a long-term perspective. The papers examines the creation and development of three competitions as key defining events, which represented different stages of the Europeanization of the game: Mitropa Cup (created in 1927), European Champion Clubs’ Cup (created in 1955) and UEFA Cup (created in 1971). Thus, afocus on these cases can help us better understand the background of the Europeanization of the game which happened during the 1990s.
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En 2004, le stade national d’Accra est renomme stade Ohene Djan, ce geste devant permettre de com... more En 2004, le stade national d’Accra est renomme stade Ohene Djan, ce geste devant permettre de commemorer l’action du premier directeur des sports du Ghana (1960-1966). Cependant, six ans plus tard, la municipalite d’Accra revient sur ce choix des autorites nationales, argumentant qu’il s’agit d’un stade municipal et non d’un stade national pour justifier cette decision. Si Ohene Djan fait encore parler de nos jours, c’est que sans doute que son action a largement depasse les frontieres du Ghana. En effet, nomme directeur des sports du Ghana en 1960 par Kwame Nkrumah, ce dernier a incarne durant les six ans de son mandat l’irruption d’enjeux politiques proprement africains au sein du football mondial, et a œuvre a reconfigurer des relations diplomatiques sportives jusque-la largement cantonnees a l’Europe et a l’Amerique du Sud.Dans le cadre de cette contribution, il s’agit de penser le parcours biographique de Djan comme un point de rencontre entre les footballs - national et global - d’une part et entre une trajectoire politique et sportive d’autre part. Moins que le recit de la chronologie d’un parcours biographique rythme par des etapes organisationnelles, politiques, personnelles et sportives, cet article considere Djan comme le nœud qui nous permet d’interroger le modele sportif et politique de la FIFA, revendique comme apolitique et elitaire. La presente recherche s’appuie sur une documentation collectee dans les riches archives de la Federation internationale de football association (FIFA) qui a ete croisee par des informations issues des fonds des Archives nationales du Ghana. Enfin, l’etude beneficie de la lecture de journaux sportifs et generalistes ghaneens, qui permettent de mettre en lumiere des elements qui ne sont pas traites dans les documents officiels de la FIFA ou dans les archives nationales ghaneennes, mais aussi d’avoir un regard sur la presence publique de Djan.
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Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns, eds., Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014). 496 pp. (hb), £36,95, ISBN:
978-0813145648.
Barbara J. Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
(Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2006). 288 pp. (hb), £60.95, ISBN: 9780674023260.
Jenifer Parks, The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017). 205 pp. (hb), $95, ISBN: 978-1498541183.
Toby C. Rider, Cold War Games: Propaganda, The Olympics and U.S. Foreign Policy (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2016). 256 pp. (hb), $95, ISBN: 978-0-252-04023-8.
J. Simon Rofe, ed., Sport and Diplomacy: Games Within Games (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018). 288 pp. (hb), £80, ISBN: 978-1-5261-3105-8.
Damion L. Thomas, Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2012). 232 pp. (hb), $60, ISBN: 978-0-252-03717-7.
In the second article, Heather Dichter addresses two events that created conflict within FIS (the International Ski Federation) in this first part of the Cold War: the arrival of East Germany at the beginning of the 1940s, and the non-participation of this country in the Alpine World Ski Championships in Chamonix in 1962. The author insists on certain States’ use of sport to fight against the other bloc. In that sense, the FIS is here perceived as a battleground for the two blocs, and Dichter’s contribution highlights that, despite apolitical discourses from the main sports leaders, in time of high tension on the international stage, the Cold War easily infiltrated the sports organisations’ arenas and tended to get the upper hand.
The third article is the fruit of Georgia Cervin, Claire Nicolas, Sylvain Dufraisse, Anaïs Bohon and Grégory Quin’s collaboration. They seek to reveal through their analyses the first elements of governance of a still widely unknown institution (the FIG – Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique), whose protagonists, successful gymnasts and various competitions were largely affected by the Cold War. This contribution also aims to offer a ‘modern’ approach of institutional history, insisting on different aspects related to the structure and the governance of the organisation and on the manner through which its leaders have tried to neutralise the impact of the Cold War.
Along the same lines, but exploring another facet of these organisations, Jürgen Mittag and Philippe Vonnard address the case of UEFA. By analysing the organisation’s official publications (the Bulletin officiel and the secretary’s report), in particular the vocabulary used, the subjects covered and the photographs published, the two authors highlight the way UEFA, an organisation involving countries coming from both blocs, wishes to appear as a panEuropean organisation. This contribution allows for a reflexion on the motivations of the Union’s main leaders and calls for future research to investigate the leaders’ incentives to engage in sport on an international level.
By contrast, Florys Castan-Vicente deals with the case of an organisation that did not transcend the Cold War. The author broaches the case of a little known entity: the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW). Castan-Vicente explains the reasons behind this organisation’s creation and its first developments. Moreover, she shows that its first leaders were indeed motivated by the idea of creating international exchanges, but their anticommunism, without a doubt, prevented countries from the Eastern bloc from joining the organisation. In this sense, this entity highlights how cultural, scientific but also sports organisations were used as weapons by each bloc.
These contributions have the advantage of presenting different situations and thus seriously prepare the ground for the topic of the Cold War’s influence on international organisations. Indeed, various grounds are dealt with in this issue, since the objects of study are international and European sports federations (Sbetti, Dichter, Cervin et al., Mittag and Vonnard) and a parastatal organisation (Castan-Vicente). In addition, the contributors also develop several approaches here, whether it be the manner the Cold War-related cases are negotiated within one (Dichter) or several federations (Sbetti); the development of an organisation’s governance despite a disadvantageous
context (Cervin et al.); the organisation’s care to offer an image that aims to transcend this particular context (Mittag and Vonnard); or else the impossibility, or unwillingness, to overcome this context until the political setting allows it (Castan-Vicente).
https://ehne.fr/article/civilisation-materielle/circulations-sportives-europeennes/lespace-sportif-europeen-circulations-organisations-et-identite-europeenne
This book examines the development of European football between 1905 and 1995 from a transnational perspective. It offers a space for discussion to both early-career and established historians from a range of different countries, leading to a better understanding of the crucial turning points in the Europeanization of the game. The volume aims to promote valuable new reflections on the role of football in the European integration process
The aim of this paper is to investigate the reasons which explained the investment of the EC in a European football competition. If we want to focus on a unknown cases, this research also reveals the interest of the EC in the sport domain.
The study is based on documents from different archives (historical archives from European Union, Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe, Union of European football associations and the Belgian football federation). In addition, it uses materials from general French sports newspapers and interviews with former EC collaborators.
The article examines the institutional dialogues pertaining to the prospects of the tournament, especially the defensive position of UEFA’s leaders about this idea. It argues that the exchanges revealed UEFA's ambition to reinforce their monopoly over organising European competitions. This research draws on documents from the UEFA’s archives and the French magazines L’Equipe and France football.
Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns, eds., Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014). 496 pp. (hb), £36,95, ISBN:
978-0813145648.
Barbara J. Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
(Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2006). 288 pp. (hb), £60.95, ISBN: 9780674023260.
Jenifer Parks, The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017). 205 pp. (hb), $95, ISBN: 978-1498541183.
Toby C. Rider, Cold War Games: Propaganda, The Olympics and U.S. Foreign Policy (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2016). 256 pp. (hb), $95, ISBN: 978-0-252-04023-8.
J. Simon Rofe, ed., Sport and Diplomacy: Games Within Games (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018). 288 pp. (hb), £80, ISBN: 978-1-5261-3105-8.
Damion L. Thomas, Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2012). 232 pp. (hb), $60, ISBN: 978-0-252-03717-7.
In the second article, Heather Dichter addresses two events that created conflict within FIS (the International Ski Federation) in this first part of the Cold War: the arrival of East Germany at the beginning of the 1940s, and the non-participation of this country in the Alpine World Ski Championships in Chamonix in 1962. The author insists on certain States’ use of sport to fight against the other bloc. In that sense, the FIS is here perceived as a battleground for the two blocs, and Dichter’s contribution highlights that, despite apolitical discourses from the main sports leaders, in time of high tension on the international stage, the Cold War easily infiltrated the sports organisations’ arenas and tended to get the upper hand.
The third article is the fruit of Georgia Cervin, Claire Nicolas, Sylvain Dufraisse, Anaïs Bohon and Grégory Quin’s collaboration. They seek to reveal through their analyses the first elements of governance of a still widely unknown institution (the FIG – Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique), whose protagonists, successful gymnasts and various competitions were largely affected by the Cold War. This contribution also aims to offer a ‘modern’ approach of institutional history, insisting on different aspects related to the structure and the governance of the organisation and on the manner through which its leaders have tried to neutralise the impact of the Cold War.
Along the same lines, but exploring another facet of these organisations, Jürgen Mittag and Philippe Vonnard address the case of UEFA. By analysing the organisation’s official publications (the Bulletin officiel and the secretary’s report), in particular the vocabulary used, the subjects covered and the photographs published, the two authors highlight the way UEFA, an organisation involving countries coming from both blocs, wishes to appear as a panEuropean organisation. This contribution allows for a reflexion on the motivations of the Union’s main leaders and calls for future research to investigate the leaders’ incentives to engage in sport on an international level.
By contrast, Florys Castan-Vicente deals with the case of an organisation that did not transcend the Cold War. The author broaches the case of a little known entity: the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW). Castan-Vicente explains the reasons behind this organisation’s creation and its first developments. Moreover, she shows that its first leaders were indeed motivated by the idea of creating international exchanges, but their anticommunism, without a doubt, prevented countries from the Eastern bloc from joining the organisation. In this sense, this entity highlights how cultural, scientific but also sports organisations were used as weapons by each bloc.
These contributions have the advantage of presenting different situations and thus seriously prepare the ground for the topic of the Cold War’s influence on international organisations. Indeed, various grounds are dealt with in this issue, since the objects of study are international and European sports federations (Sbetti, Dichter, Cervin et al., Mittag and Vonnard) and a parastatal organisation (Castan-Vicente). In addition, the contributors also develop several approaches here, whether it be the manner the Cold War-related cases are negotiated within one (Dichter) or several federations (Sbetti); the development of an organisation’s governance despite a disadvantageous
context (Cervin et al.); the organisation’s care to offer an image that aims to transcend this particular context (Mittag and Vonnard); or else the impossibility, or unwillingness, to overcome this context until the political setting allows it (Castan-Vicente).
https://ehne.fr/article/civilisation-materielle/circulations-sportives-europeennes/lespace-sportif-europeen-circulations-organisations-et-identite-europeenne
This book examines the development of European football between 1905 and 1995 from a transnational perspective. It offers a space for discussion to both early-career and established historians from a range of different countries, leading to a better understanding of the crucial turning points in the Europeanization of the game. The volume aims to promote valuable new reflections on the role of football in the European integration process
The aim of this paper is to investigate the reasons which explained the investment of the EC in a European football competition. If we want to focus on a unknown cases, this research also reveals the interest of the EC in the sport domain.
The study is based on documents from different archives (historical archives from European Union, Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe, Union of European football associations and the Belgian football federation). In addition, it uses materials from general French sports newspapers and interviews with former EC collaborators.
The article examines the institutional dialogues pertaining to the prospects of the tournament, especially the defensive position of UEFA’s leaders about this idea. It argues that the exchanges revealed UEFA's ambition to reinforce their monopoly over organising European competitions. This research draws on documents from the UEFA’s archives and the French magazines L’Equipe and France football.
Cet ouvrage propose d’analyser la genèse et les développements de ce processus en mettant l’accent sur les actions, individuelles et collectives, de plusieurs dirigeants qui occupent de hautes fonctions dans les fédérations sportives internationales entre la première décennie du siècle dernier et les années 1970. Cette période est en effet charnière car elle correspond à l’affirmation d’un internationalisme sportif : marqués par de nombreuses tensions politiques et confrontés à la médiatisation et à la démocratisation croissante des sports, les dirigeants sportifs internationaux cherchent à créer une communauté originale, dont les échanges transcendent parfois le contexte géopolitique.
Beaucoup de ces figures sont de nationalité suisse. Plus largement, le pays se profile comme une terre d’accueil particulièrement favorable à l’organisation de nombreuses compétitions internationales et à l’établissement des organisations sportives internationales, ainsi qu’un espace dans lequel se forgent de nombreuses pratiques sportives. Il s’agit dès lors, en convoquant des sources diverses et inexploitées, de s’interroger sur cette situation originale, car elle est avant tout promue par des acteurs privés dont les objectifs recoupent plus ou moins les actions diplomatiques étatiques de la Confédération helvétique, mais sans toutefois que l’État ne développe une politique en la matière.
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He gives some insights on the building and aims of the association and, more generally, describes the context of the "sport studies" in Europe in which the association has been created.
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