Slovenia soccer "barbaric sport" political operative _ red Firefly

Slovenia war of independence (1991, 27 June-6 July) text/ Shen Xu Hui General comments often thought that all countries are promoting football fanatic, thinking putting football to the political level, Governments ' common formula. The second round of the tournament, and the United States pitted against each other in Slovenia is a counter example: independence from Yugoslavia out less than 20 years of the southern European countries, football for political reasons, but once spurned by people has become a popular sport, the players once belittled as "barbarians", not the people's heroes. On this country scholars have detailed study PeterStankovic. Slovenia is the location of the former Yugoslavia is the most northern of the republics, the relatively high, national income and the capitalist European interaction more, from the 1970s onwards, gradually rising from Yugoslavia nationalism, enthusiasm than subsequent outbreak of large-scale conflict in Bosnia, Croatia and other countries of separatism. However, Slovenia has always been afraid to openly challenge the regime of former Yugoslavia, the work of the cohesion of national complex, the cultural level of a class of soft, need to be told whether the "own people". Football has always been a strong suit of the former Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav team sports that have a "Europe of Brazil", became a matter of central national campaigns. Slovenia though also have their own regional team, players are mostly from Yugoslavia in other regions of the new immigrants or their descendants, from the perspective of the fight for independence, initiative is a political football is not correct. Therefore, Slovenia nationalism leaders decided to potentially discredit football, football as used in the head, "Savage Love stupid sports talents" to imply that good at soccer, people of non-purebred is inferior. At the same time, they advocate mountain sports, because of the mountainous region of Yugoslavia, the other Member States, will not compete with it, and use of mountain sports and Switzerland, Austria and other countries of the Western European Alps mountains, la relation of this mountain bordering countries also include France, Germany and Italy, while they are at the core of EU. Thus, for the next 20 years, football in Slovenia are fading, Slovenia became the earliest Western European mentality and essentially accepted as "insiders" of the members of the former Yugoslavia. Ironically, since the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Slovenia independent success, it's all sports team has become a symbol of nationalism, including football, formerly taboo began to thaw. Plus, power, accidents in the European Nations Cup and World Cup will be able to enter the final round, this small country, the absolute superlative play football fanatic finally rise again, the player changes back to the national hero, utilitarian nationalism, and decided to use political football service. But it is on this premise, nationalist, State insisted that "football political operative": on the one hand, 8 years ago the World Cup finals, the team of Slovenia to continue before the Yugoslav immigrants and their descendants as the predominant, but official on this deliberately low-key, more comments on the own football players was renamed during a, so that national audiences do not want too many unrelated things and patriotic. On the other hand, because "the image of the savage sport" or by the public, in intellectual circles, State nationalists will explain the team there are so many new immigrants, it is because "this is the new immigrants, the only way for upward mobility," nationals as versatile, more like the brain, above competition this manual labor, wish to maintain native advantage. The current World Cup, Slovenia proportion of players, from Bosnia, Italy and Germany for a long time playing Professional Football League striker de Dick (Dedic), is born from the rest of the former Yugoslavia, and the representatives of 8 years ago, the team "constituents" become politically correct. No matter how well the current Slovenia, the country's football operation after 40 years of ups and downs, pronounced basically completed; if the expression can beat the inheritance of Serbia, Yugoslavia's main operation effect more overwhelmed.