Cultured Football #26
Cultured Football #26
How Dublin’s Bohemians Are Bringing Fan-Owned Football into Europe
Aaaand, we’re back.
Hope that you missed Cultured Football during the week hiatus but then again there was plenty to keep you excited thanks to the final phases of both Euro 2020 and the Copa America.
With the early stages of European competition having kicked off and pre-season friendlies increasing in numbers, we will be all-consumed by club football before we know it. And, for all the talk about football fatigue, I think that deep down we’re all happy that the game never stops.
Leaving Euro 2020
I told myself that I’d try to avoid any articles looking back on Euro 2020 but this one by Brian Phillips is too good to exclude. It looks at the tournament – and the game of football – from the lens of minor moments captured within two hours that convert expectation to either sadness or joy. As Phillips opens the article, “I hate seeing Bukayo Saka sad, but I love seeing Giorgio Chiellini happy.”
At Rangers I am learning about the mentality of winning
Ianis Hagi is an extremely interesting player. A talented individual who seems to have inherited quite a bit of his father’s technique, there has never really been the hype around him that one would expect. It explains why he finds himself playing in Scotland rather than one of Europe’s bigger leagues. The player himself, however, doesn’t see it this way and instead has a very healthy way of looking at every experience that he’s had during his young career by opting to focus on what he has learned along the way.
Finding bargains at relegated clubs
As the focus turns back to the transfer market (which, I have to admit, I always enjoy following) there will be a lot written on which players should be attracting which clubs. Often these are an exercise of pure fantasy but there something to this one which uses data to identify players at relegated clubs who are worth checking out.
The Argentinian club democratising football through tech
Football is not the most innovative of industries and the way they handled the enforced absence of fans over the past years further proves that. There are some interesting moves being made and, thanks to an ambitious project, Argentinian side Banfield are looking to break the mould.
How Dublin’s Bohemians Are Bringing Fan-Owned Football into Europe
One thing that the European Championships have definitely managed to achieve is take the attention away from problems within the running of club football. Talk about fan ownership or involvement has ebbed away with the big clubs’ efforts to force a Super League slowly being forgotten. So it feels appropriate to bring this back into focus with a look at Irish side Bohemian who are showing what can be achieved with fans on board and a focus on the local community.
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