They become specific due to the persistent crisis in which the national team got into during this time. They have to fulfill a basic level of competence and plausibility. Self serving biased attributions which usually are concomitants of failure and help to cope with it mentally could be suspected in the media as an escape from responsibility. In this way national desasters in soccer can lead to an entertaining mediated discourse about attributions. Spectacle and Global Sports Ceremonies.
World Cup attract the largest world-wide audiences in television.
This paper explores the commonalities and differences between the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and the World Cup. Drawing upon my published work on such ceremonies and spectacle, but concentrating upon the Atlanta Olympic Games and the France '98 World Cup, I consider how such televised events negotiate histories and traditions of national, regional and global identity. Click for outside US contact information . Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright Information and Privacy Information .