who holds the power here? Is it the fans or the players?
Has football changed, or have the ways we view it, follow it and think of it changed? Is the game still the same game, whether it is played casually on a street or professionally in a stadium?
what do you associate soccer with?
Should the ways in which culture has affect sports be publicized so that more people would be able to relate or view it more openly?
Is it important for the moral of games such as soccer for communities to come together?
How can soccer reflect culture, and how may culture reflect soccer? Which has more impact?
Why do you think the reality of each agent in football is being portrayed negatively, even if the author himself is a fan of football?
As you can tell from my post I think that the author [Galeano] was overly dramatic throughout the article. Do you think that his dramatics enhanced or worked against the overall message that the article was trying to portray?
Has the way we consume sports changed the way players behave? How much more pressure do they have to endure because of how televised and profitable their sport is?
If one-day football magically ceases to exist, what changes do you imagine would happen in Latin America’s societies?
is football itself changed as our view of it and feelings about it change? What will happen to the game, and it’s fans, if football continues to be industrialized/monetized?
Were there similar class associations with sports where you grew up? Did you find yourself pushed in a certain direction with participation or opinion due to those connotations?
Why are some places more invested in sports than others?
