Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany

Globalization has a lot of definitions. It depends, what path it is discussed. In economic questions, there are especially trade of goods in ancient times. In modern time, that is not only goods are running around the world but the production branches are globalized long ago. Since there is work...

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Main Authors: Trosien, Gerhard, Germany, Oberursel
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Sports Science and Recreation 2013
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spelling uitm-220852018-11-13T03:25:15Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22085/ Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany Trosien, Gerhard Germany, Oberursel Recreational areas and facilities. Recreation centers Malaysia Sports Globalization has a lot of definitions. It depends, what path it is discussed. In economic questions, there are especially trade of goods in ancient times. In modern time, that is not only goods are running around the world but the production branches are globalized long ago. Since there is work with a world wide web, many services are going globally – in reality and virtually. Sports have their own paths of going globalization. One important step has shown the re-activation of the new Olympic Games, which started 1896 in Athens/Greece. However, there are a lot of other sports, which not have been integrated into the Olympic Games and it is in the beginning, they went their own ways. Sailors, soldiers, students, merchants, and others (not to forget the aristocracy) brought their knowledge and habits to other countries and continents, so some special sports (mostly from Great Britain) spread out, where the British people went to, for examples: Rugby and Cricket. Moreover, the actual sports have established in most nations but they are not in the same intensity. Football of the European understanding is the most popular sports in the world today but it still plays a fifth wheel under the five major sports in the USA. American Football is number one there but it is never number one in another country of the world. Although the term “Americanization” indicates that a lot of trend sports coming from the USA even it is also the techniques to manage and to develop new markets internationally come from North America. As the result, after the fall of the “iron curtain” 1989 there are no barriers for the global free flow of goods, money, and individuals and the actual globalization of sports had experienced important changes and challenges. Faculty of Sports Science and Recreation 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22085/1/AJ_GERHARD%20TROSIEN%20MJSSR%20SR%2013.pdf Trosien, Gerhard and Germany, Oberursel (2013) Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany. Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation, 9 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1823-3198
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Malaysia
Sports
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Malaysia
Sports
Trosien, Gerhard
Germany, Oberursel
Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany
description Globalization has a lot of definitions. It depends, what path it is discussed. In economic questions, there are especially trade of goods in ancient times. In modern time, that is not only goods are running around the world but the production branches are globalized long ago. Since there is work with a world wide web, many services are going globally – in reality and virtually. Sports have their own paths of going globalization. One important step has shown the re-activation of the new Olympic Games, which started 1896 in Athens/Greece. However, there are a lot of other sports, which not have been integrated into the Olympic Games and it is in the beginning, they went their own ways. Sailors, soldiers, students, merchants, and others (not to forget the aristocracy) brought their knowledge and habits to other countries and continents, so some special sports (mostly from Great Britain) spread out, where the British people went to, for examples: Rugby and Cricket. Moreover, the actual sports have established in most nations but they are not in the same intensity. Football of the European understanding is the most popular sports in the world today but it still plays a fifth wheel under the five major sports in the USA. American Football is number one there but it is never number one in another country of the world. Although the term “Americanization” indicates that a lot of trend sports coming from the USA even it is also the techniques to manage and to develop new markets internationally come from North America. As the result, after the fall of the “iron curtain” 1989 there are no barriers for the global free flow of goods, money, and individuals and the actual globalization of sports had experienced important changes and challenges.
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title Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany
title_short Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany
title_full Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany
title_fullStr Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany
title_full_unstemmed Globalization of Sports / Gerhard Trosien and Oberursel, Germany
title_sort globalization of sports / gerhard trosien and oberursel, germany
publisher Faculty of Sports Science and Recreation
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22085/
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