Introduction:
Football is a national sport that has captured the hearts of fans from all over the world. For some, this sport is a way of life, especially if the individual personally plays football as a career, or a hobby, or simply just love watching football games. It is also a great form of entertainment in home, and at sports bars, as well as a great topic for people to talk about when wanting to meet new friends. For example, you go to a sports bar and a football game is on, there is a high possibility that someone else in the room is also a fan; it might not be for the same team, but a fan none-the-less.
For those who are unaware, football is the term used to describe a sport/game played by two teams of eleven players with a circular …show more content…
This instance was on October 26, 1863. Since then the rules of the game have evolved because back when the original rules were created, football was a lot more similar to Rugby than the sport we are more accustomed and familiar with now. For example, they had rules where handling was allowed and forward passes were not allowed, and what is even more interesting was the use of touch downs to indicate a scored goal (Sanders, 40). If you think about it, this makes it seem a lot like the popular Football that is played in the United States of …show more content…
At the time, “AKEL was a crypto-communist party, and it had a considerable following among left- leaning figures such as Vassos Lyssarides and George Ladas, as well as many of the noncommunist Greek Cypriots who were working as journalists” (Rahe, 6). Since there were Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot soccer teams already in existence, AKEL was intent on achieving enosis—a political union—between Cyprus and what they thought was a communist Greece. In addition, while pursuing cultural hegemony on the island, it attempted a Gleichschaltung—a standardization—of Greek Cypriot soccer (Rahe, 6).
Majority of the members of the APOEL football club were completely against mixing sports with politics which, as a result encouraged the leftists to leave because they knew then that they would not get any votes from APOEL. Consequently, the leftists formed their own team, Omonoia, which meant Solidarity, and other teams like Alki, Orfeas and Nea Salamina (Adamides and Sonan, 7). Unavoidably, “this polarized the situation; and to this day APOEL is the team backed by Cypriot conservatives while teams like Omonoia were the team supported by AKEL” (Rahe,
Football is a national sport that has captured the hearts of fans from all over the world. For some, this sport is a way of life, especially if the individual personally plays football as a career, or a hobby, or simply just love watching football games. It is also a great form of entertainment in home, and at sports bars, as well as a great topic for people to talk about when wanting to meet new friends. For example, you go to a sports bar and a football game is on, there is a high possibility that someone else in the room is also a fan; it might not be for the same team, but a fan none-the-less.
For those who are unaware, football is the term used to describe a sport/game played by two teams of eleven players with a circular …show more content…
This instance was on October 26, 1863. Since then the rules of the game have evolved because back when the original rules were created, football was a lot more similar to Rugby than the sport we are more accustomed and familiar with now. For example, they had rules where handling was allowed and forward passes were not allowed, and what is even more interesting was the use of touch downs to indicate a scored goal (Sanders, 40). If you think about it, this makes it seem a lot like the popular Football that is played in the United States of …show more content…
At the time, “AKEL was a crypto-communist party, and it had a considerable following among left- leaning figures such as Vassos Lyssarides and George Ladas, as well as many of the noncommunist Greek Cypriots who were working as journalists” (Rahe, 6). Since there were Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot soccer teams already in existence, AKEL was intent on achieving enosis—a political union—between Cyprus and what they thought was a communist Greece. In addition, while pursuing cultural hegemony on the island, it attempted a Gleichschaltung—a standardization—of Greek Cypriot soccer (Rahe, 6).
Majority of the members of the APOEL football club were completely against mixing sports with politics which, as a result encouraged the leftists to leave because they knew then that they would not get any votes from APOEL. Consequently, the leftists formed their own team, Omonoia, which meant Solidarity, and other teams like Alki, Orfeas and Nea Salamina (Adamides and Sonan, 7). Unavoidably, “this polarized the situation; and to this day APOEL is the team backed by Cypriot conservatives while teams like Omonoia were the team supported by AKEL” (Rahe,