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I am doing a research project on how the game of soccer connects immigrant groups in the U.S.? |
If you have migrated to the U.S. and love the game of soccer, can you answer the following? 1) What country did you migrate from? 2) How important is the game of soccer viewed in your culture? 3) Was it hard finding similar people of your decent in the United States to play soccer with? 4) What do you think the difference culturally is, in American Soccer versus your countries? 5) Why do you think migrant groups form their own ethnic clubs through soccer? 7) Do you think playing soccer is a way to show your national identity in a newcountry? 1.China(southern part, Guangdong) 2.When I was selected on the district team in my city, people began to have attention on training young soccer players, by the time I left for America, soccer has been very popular. 3.My first year in America, it was hard for me to get a chance to play formal soccer because my school did not have a soccer team. 4.In my country, young kids at age of 13 and below, at first, play 7-player matches and start to learn to play 11-player matches around 14. I think American coaches are not strict enough to their players. 5.Because they can communicate better, and they have their own style of playing soccer. 7.Maybe, for me, I dont have any Chinese identity on soccer, but for example, the brazilian player, Ronaldinho, he has brazilian samba identity with soccer. 1) Brasil 2) We live, breath and die the sport 3) At first yes, but there are many Brasilians in this country now 4) Well the difference is, in the U.S. the sport is not popular here as it is in Brasil, they have baseball, football, basketball and hockey that are more dominant then soccer, so most kids tend to chose those sports, because soccer is second to them, in Brasil, kids are brought up on soccer from the day there born, and stay with it there whole lives..... 5) It's because it's in there blood, they have pride in there sport, and it makes them happy to be playing whenever they can 6) No i dont think so, i mean they play because they love the game, they have passion for a game they grew up on, and nothing makes them more happy when they can play the game of soccer..... I immigrated from Argentina. Football is very important, it's the most popular sport in Argentina! It was difficult to find other Argentines , so I played with Mexicans and Guatemalans. Football clubs in Argentina were mostly founded by European immigrants who used to identify with and make connections withe old country. Here sport clubs seem more superficial and more commercial. To this Genovese Argentines still support Boca Juniors; and Germans and Spaniards still support River Plate. Football clubs in Argentina sometimes served as "mutual aid societies." Definitely, at work I have Boca Juniors paraphenalia hanging or on display at my desk! |
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