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World Cup Stadium Development and Sustainability

In: Managing the Football World Cup

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  • Les Street
  • Stephen Frawley
  • Sarah Cobourn

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As outlined in the first chapter of this book, the Football World Cup is the largest and most important international football tournament (Florek et al., 2008). Whilst it can be claimed the Olympic Games with its Summer and Winter versions, contested over an array of disciplines every two years, is larger and carries greater significance (Frawley & Adair, 2013), it is arguable that no other global sporting event reaches the fervour generated by the World Cup. Football as the global game can elicit high levels of passion and as Sugden and Tomlinson (1998, p. 4) explain, ‘football is an emotive form of popular theatre which has proven to be open to the expression of distinct sets of values and ideologies, transcending any meaning which the game itself has’. Put simply, for many people: football is life.

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  • Les Street & Stephen Frawley & Sarah Cobourn, 2014. "World Cup Stadium Development and Sustainability," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stephen Frawley & Daryl Adair (ed.), Managing the Football World Cup, chapter 7, pages 104-132, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-37368-7_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137373687_7
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    1. Gema Lobillo Mora & Xavier Ginesta & Jordi de San Eugenio Vela, 2021. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Football Clubs: The Value of Environmental Sustainability as a Basis for the Rebranding of Real Betis Balompié in Spain," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-16, December.

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