For the Love of the Game: Global Sporting Habits and Implications for Marketers Euromonitor International : Strategy Briefing August 2008 Strategy Briefings World List of Contents and Tables Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Drivers ..........................................................................................................................
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1.1 Research and describe the pastimes of the upper classes and landed gentry and investigate the reasons for their participation. Pre-Industrial Britain was made up of two classes‚ the upper class and the lower class. Prior to the industrial revolution Britain was largely agricultural and rural‚ with limited travel available meaning that only the upper class were able to travel and way to communicate with different parts of the country besides messengers. Britain’s upper class lived a very sophisticated
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on December 19‚ 1988 in Tocopilla‚ Chile) is a Chilean football player‚ who plays as a winger or forward. He is known as "El Niño Maravilla" (the Wonder Boy). Alexis was named by World Soccer Magazine as one of the ’50 most exciting teenagers in the world game’. He began his professional career with the Chilean club Cobreloa. He played one season there before being signed by the Serie A team‚ Udinese. Udinese had to pay nearly $3 million for his signature. Colo-Colo then paid Udinese nearly $150
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Soccer is very popular sport played all over the world. This is a team sport with 11 players on each side played on a rectangular field. There are two teams and the purpose of this game is to try to score a point by kicking the ball into the opponent’s net. Using hands and arms are not allowed in soccer with the exception of the goalie guarding the goal to prevent the other team from scoring. All other parts of the body are acceptable such as the feet‚ chest‚ knees‚ head‚ etc. Players must have
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Portuguese‚ to Brazil in 1885. At first‚ it was only practiced in private clubs by young men from elite and rich families. The Brazilian Football Confederation was founded in 1914. The national soccer team‚ also founded in 1914 and affiliated with FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) in 1923‚ has participated in the World Cup eighteen times since 1930. In fact‚ it is the only team to have never missed a World Cup participation. It has won a total of five times (1958‚ 1962‚ 1970‚
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maintain their heritage.[5] In 1888‚ The Football League was founded in England‚ becoming the first of many professional football competitions. During the twentieth century‚ the various codes of football became amongst the most popular team sports in the world.[6] information Football is the game which is played on the rectangular grass. It is played with the ball. In this game‚ the goalkeeper is the only player who allowed to use their hands and arms to propel the ball. The main purpose of the game is
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1987) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He serves as the captain of his country’s national football team. By the age of 21‚ Messi had received Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year‚ in 2009‚ he won his first Ballon d’Or[2] and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. He followed this up by winning the inaugural FIFA Ballon d’Or in 2010‚[3] and again in 2011[4] and 2012.[5] He also won
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june to july? Yes it is the FIFA 2014 World Cup 2014. When you think of world cup‚ what is the first thing that appears to your mind? Yes‚ I’m sure it is brazil‚ england‚ germany and so on. But all of this are the about the mens world cup. When it comes to the womens world cup‚ what do you know? Well‚ today I will be talking about the the FIFA Womens’ World Cup. First‚ a brief history about the womens world cup. The tournament was originally the brainchild of the then FIFA president João Havelange
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was passed all women could play soccer across the world which made them happy that they were being recognised for playing soccer and for making it into a game that women could play which was a very good idea because they started to get more fans and making the game more popular than it already is. Also they started to make league around the world too. Women also had tournaments to compete in too. They were CAO‚ CONCACAF‚ CONMEBOL‚ and the World Cup were made in 1991 then the olympics was in 1996 (History
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played soccer except for his mom and his sister. When he was 1 year old he got a soccer ball and a soccer shirt as a gift. According to the website www.fcbarcelona.org Lionel Messi was born in Rosario‚ Argentina is the best soccer player in the world because he created many goals‚ helps his team and works hard for his team to win. Lionel Messi was only 3 years old when he had played his first soccer match. Coaches say that he had always scored like 7 goals by game. Coaches saw amazed at Leo
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