...Video Games Makes Fans In the article, “How video game technology creates sports fans” the article analysis how many people that play video games become fans just because they are playing that particular sports game. It talks about how soccer is the leading video game that people are becoming fans just because of playing FIFA. With the games becoming so real these days it makes people feel as if they really understand the game, and makes them want to watch a real game. Playing the video games makes people way more interested when they actually start watching it being played in real life. In the article it states that twenty two percent of americans twelve and older have played at least one sports video game in the past year. Why is that important? Because if you start getting someone to like a sport young, you are almost guaranteeing yourself on gaining a fan for life. Coming from a person who plays video games, and only plays sports video games. I can personally say that playing video games does make fans. If it was not for FIFA I would probably have no interest what so ever in soccer. Not only does playing a sports game teach you how to play the game and more about the game. It makes players popular in places they would not normally be popular in. You learn players names and things about them you would not normally learn just by watching the game on tv. Also I have seen friends go out and buy apparel just because they saw a jersey on a video game that looks cool. Its...
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...Gender Inequality in Soccer In American society, sports are an important part of our lives. For centuries, males have dominated a wide range of sports. This wide range of sports doesn't only include what type of sport, but also includes professional sports teams, college, high school and even elementary age teams. In modern day, women are still fighting for equality in sports. Even though Women sports have increased in popularity, gender inequality still exists today. Now and days, women are receiving more opportunities, but people still mainly prefer men's sports. Women are still not accepted as equal participants in the activity of sports or in sharing sports knowledge. Women are seen as weaker and not as capable as men when it comes...
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...played. Major League Baseball Enterprises, Inc. (the National Baseball Commission) was founded in 1903 and is based in New York, New York. (McCarthy, 2008). This organization holds the rights to the leagues it operate in North America. For an organization this size there is no known mission statement for Major League Enterprises. One of the strength of baseball is it fan base. Over the years it has remained consistent. In Gallup polls over the years at least 40% of Americans consider themselves baseball fans. Since the 1930s women interest has grown from 27% in the 30s to 37% at the turn of the century. While during the same time period male fans has declined, from high in the 1950s of 57% to 49% at the turn of the century. Even though the demographic of the fan has change they still enjoy the “boys of summer”. Merchandising is another strong point for the MLB; in 2011 sales were up 10% from the previous year. The numbers are enormous. With the trade of players, a team’s merchandising revenue could just over 100%. Every year player are traded, new players come to the game and some of retiring players becoming instant classics. You would think it would come from jerseys but...
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...rival spectators are identified as those supporting a rival team. The violence against different team supporters have usually led to the destruction of property, injuries and in some unfortunate events, it has resulted to the loss of lives. These are issues that the world is currently facing. The entire universe has in one way or another experienced such developments especially among the sport spectators. The emergence of football as one of the most watched and supported sport has put it at the very center of hooligan activities. Many hooliganism cases reported today are from soccer matches, where fans find it hard to accept defeat. The fact that so many people today closely follow the sport has made it prominent, with an almost cult-like fan following. The football fans have grown enthusiastic of the sport in such a way that the loss of a match touches a very sensitive nerve among these fans, an aspect that results to anger. The embarrassment caused is usually almost personal among these spectators; hence the slightest trigger to violence leads to a greatly devastating repercussion. As such, hooliganism...
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...incorporate the league. The climate would be perfect for the league. England’s fall and winter are very similar to America’s. The league would be played in fall and winter, this would be very easy for the players to play in this climate. The geography and climate would not be a problem for the league, it will be a perfect fit for the league. England’s culture is very open to having an American football league in their country. England is very into sports just as Americans are. They become very passionate about a sports team, especially if it the team is from the city they grew up in or are currently living in. England’s two popular sports are soccer and rugby. The reason that the league would be a success is that England has a sport very similar to football, which is rugby. Rugby is the second most viewed and attended sport in the country, after soccer. Since the country is already used to a sport like football, it would be easy to bring American football. England’s population is 53,012,456. With the population...
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...A prime example of this is the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. The women’s team has finished in the top three in all World Cups since its inaugural year in 1991. This impressive stretch has included three championship titles. On the other side, the men’s team has never made a top four finish in any world cup ever. This 85 year championship drought could be a reason to take a step back and appraise the situation. Why isn’t the more successful team more popular? Just last year: “the Women’s World Cup Final between the U.S. and Japan, which the U.S. team won 5-2, drew a record-breaking American audience for soccer, with an average total viewership of 25.4 million,” according to BBC. That viewership set a record for any U.S. soccer match ever. This hasn’t been a continuous trend. On the team’s recent victory tour their numbers have been mediocre at best. According to SportsMediaWatch.com, “Last Sunday’s United States/Costa Rica women’s soccer friendly, the first USA match since the Women’s World Cup, earned 315,000 viewers on Fox Sports 1 — ranking fourth out of the 11 USWNT friendlies televised this year,” marking the huge 25 million viewer decrease from the Cup. Another example of high performance is the UCONN women’s basketball team...
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...incorporate the league. The climate would be perfect for the league. England’s fall and winter are very similar to America’s. The league would be played in fall and winter, this would be very easy for the players to play in this climate. The geography and climate would not be a problem for the league, it will be a perfect fit for the league. England’s culture is very open to having an American football league in their country. England is very into sports just as Americans are. They become very passionate about a sports team, especially if it the team is from the city they grew up in or are currently living in. England’s two popular sports are soccer and rugby. The reason that the league would be a success is that England has a sport very similar to football, which is rugby. Rugby is the second most viewed and attended sport in the country, after soccer. Since the country is already used to a sport like football, it would be easy to bring American football. England’s population is 53,012,456. With the population...
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...the conflict in different cultural exchange becomes prominent, especially the difference between Chinese and western sports culture. The difference is largely due to the different historical and cultural background. Each of them has made a sense to the development of its own society and influenced our understanding of sports and main sport activities in the wide world. What's more, because of the impact western sport, Chinese traditional sport has changed a lot compared with last century. Many sports in China are played only during seasonal festivals or in certain regions. China's national sport is ping-pong. Other common sports include shadow boxing ( wushuor taijiquan). Western sports have been gaining popularity in China. These include soccer, basketball, American football, and baseball. They are played mainly in schools, colleges, and universities....
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...broad fan base. This case delves into how Real Madrid transitioned from a good soccer team with a winning history into the global sports juggernaut we know today. We first examined Real Madrid’s revenue streams and found that from their inception through the 1970s their business model was based almost entirely on their ticket sales. After the 1970s up until 2003 they had some media rights, a small merchandising department, and some other negligible streams of income. It was in 2003 that team President Florintino Perez decided to make Real Madrid into a special type of sports team that was akin to large global corporations like Walt Disney. After reviewing the facts we agree with the decision to shift the business model into its current position (as of 2003). After identifying and examining the lifetime values of different consumer groups which are listed below under the “Question 2” headline, we have found that each group has different desires in order to be completely satisfied. However, each group has a common denominator that will maximize utility across all segments and that is winning. A winning team sells more merchandise, can demand higher advertising revenues, and can attract the best players for less money which also leads to winning more often. We also quantified two types of consumers, the Socios and international fans. Using the data provided we found that the LTV of one individual “Socio” is about €16,245.88 and the LTV of an international fan is about...
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...Athleticism of Soccer positions The game of soccer is becoming one of America’s favorite sports and already has millions of fans. Soccer is a tough game because it is nonstop movement. Other games like football or baseball have stops and pauses in the action. Soccer has different kind of conditioning than other sports because of the amount of time the players have to run. Soccer has 11 players per team on the field. The game has two 45- minute halves. The goalkeepers are the only players that are able to use their hands at all times. The game is fast paced and a lot of movements with the ball. The game of soccer requires team work and also individual skills to play the game. To be a soccer player one has to have athleticism, skills and endurance to play. To play in any kinds of sports one has to be athletic. To be athletic means to be able to keep up with other players with speed, skills, judgment, reflexes, strength, conditioning, endurance and mental toughness. Soccer demands all these capabilities. Positions in Soccer requires all of these skills but every position needs combination of different skills to stay in the game. The midfielder is the position that requires the most physical effort. The midfield player has a lot on his plate because he has to be able to run back and forth the full length of the field at times which he needs to be physically fit. When the other team has the ball the midfielder has to help the defenders and when his team is on offense he...
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...MINISTRY OF THE TRANSPORT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL STATE BUDGET EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION “ULYANOVSK HIGHER CIVIL AVIATION SCHOOL” DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES PAPER The role of English in the modern world Cadet Kotelnikov Oleg Group ATO-14-2 Supervised by Bershattskaya S.A. Ulyanovsk 2015 CONTENTS Introduction 3 1. Baseball 4 2. Basketball 5 3. American football 6 4. Ice hockey 7 5. Soccer 8 6. Other popular sports 10 Conclusion 11 References 11 INTRODUCTION Americans pay much attention to physical fitness. Many sports and sporting activities are popular in the USA. People participate in swimming, skating, squash and badminton, tennis, marathons, track-and-field, bowing, archery, skiing, skating etc. But the five major American sports are hockey, volleyball, baseball, football and basketball. Basketball and volleyball have been invented in America. There is a large choice of sports in America. This can be explained by the size and variety of the country. Another reason of the popularity of sports is the people’s love of competition of any kind. One more reason is that Americans use sports activities for teaching socials values, such as teamwork and sportsmanship. All this explains why Americans...
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...Sports Clubs in Spain World soccer clubs, constrained by their inability to increase their income from their traditional businesses, have begun to adopt strategies to transform themselves into modern sports and media companies. Under the recent presidency of Florentino Pérez, the Spanish football club Real Madrid presents a good example of the application of this expanded vision. One of the fundamental pillars of this model has involved designing and implementing a new marketing strategy aimed at strengthening the value of the club's brand. The adoption of this model has resulted in a significant increase in income from marketing. Undeniably, in this area, Real Madrid has become the leader in world soccer. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. MIGUEL BLANCO CALLEJO AND FRANCISCO J AV I E R F O R C A D E L L America. The key aspect of this conception resides in the idea that sports clubs can behave as brands, and the essential principle is to exploit the sponsorship plan and sale of products, together with the commercialization and sale of audio-visual and television rights of sporting events. In soccer, Manchester United in the United Kingdom was the pioneer in commercially exploiting its brand on an international level, and this strategy was highly successful in the 1990s. During the early years of the 21st century, however, Real Madrid has gained the position of “commercial leadership” within the world soccer market. Thus, during the 1990s, the soccer industry has been transformed...
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...Julio Ramos Instructor: Paul Hansen ENGL-1301-14 10 November 2013 A Great Soccer Player There are a lot of good soccer players around the world; I would describe a young, tactical, and fast player who is an idol of many soccer fans, Cristiano Ronaldo. I will achieve that you learn the soccer life of this great player. I will retake details of his childhood, where he was born, his debut in professional soccer, and his hobbies and awards. Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born in Funchal Madeira, Portugal on February 5, in 1985. He was born into a humble family with three brothers. Since he was a child he showed his great talent for this sport and in 1993, he began to practice officially with a team where his father worked. Cristiano began to stand out among his peers and at the age of 10 years, some teams from the city want him. After that, he forms part of a team of his city, the "National”, which formed him as a great player and becoming a promise of Portugal. In 2001 he transferred to the capital city team Sporting in Portugal. He debuted with the team in October 2001, when he was only 17 years old. They quickly fortify the team's starting roster. In the summer of 2003 Sporting played a friendly match against Manchester United, where Cristiano juice and gave a great impression to opposing players and even rival coach Alex Ferguson managed the transfer of the player to Manchester for 12.24 million pounds sterling in the same summer. When...
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...and the America Airlines Arena in Miami under its control. AEG developed and operates the Home Depot Centre in Carson Los Angeles “it is the official U.S Olympic training site that features elite facilities for soccer, tennis, track and field, track cycling, boxing, lacrosse, rugby, football and other sport. The Home Depot Center also hosts concerts and family shows and is the home of the Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA” (Anschutz Entertainment Group, 2012). It is also the national training center for both the Men and Women national soccer teams. AEG also controls many facilities worldwide, in Europe in controls the O2 area in London and the O2 World arena in Berlin, The Hamburg Arena in Hamburg, the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam and the Globe Arena in Stockholm. In Asia it controls the Wukesong Arena in Beijing and the Qatar National Convention Center in Doha. AEG also controls Acer Arena in Sydney Australia. AEG owns a share in an impressive number of sports teams around the world and has a firm grip some of the largest sporting franchises and various sports. AEG part owns the Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo’s Major League soccer teams and the Hammarby soccer club which is the most popular soccer club in Stockholm and among the most popular soccer clubs in Sweden (Anschutz Entertainment Group, 2012). AEG part owns various hockey teams from around the world that include that LA Kings that play in the NHL, the Ontario Reign and Reading Royals that play in...
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... media - its everywhere. If sport was not about the game, then arguably, sport would be about the money. Each and every week, transfers of players are made, ticket offices receive income, and money is handed from one profiteering person to the next. Where sport is widely thought to be about fair play, professional sport is, in fact, like war. There can only be one winner and what one team or individual gains, the other loses. Many sportsmen and women around the world are caught up with winning, not just because of the prowess of a title but, also because professionalism is now about money and winning is a means to an end - a financial end. There are demands for higher standards of performance by coaches, managers, media, sponsors and fans. These demands can bring about negative consequences such as insanely high salaries and prize monies which can prove to be counterproductive in reinforcing sport's core values – sportsmanship, playing for pride, winning with grace and losing with...
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