ABSTRACT

The objective of this article is to indicate successful and unsuccessful aspects of football diplomacy. There will be presented two cases: match between US and Iran representations during the World Cup 1998 in France and FIFA president’s Palestinian-Israeli diplomatic mission in 2015. Both of those cases will be analysed in terms of meaning for international relations actors – what was their context and effects. Titular success and failuresare related to those cases, which are ambiguous in the assessment. Also non-political actors’ roles will be underlined, because of their actions which transcended beyond the sport’s sphere. Author will make an evaluation of all these elements with a commentary if the football diplomacy could have other effects in those cases. This subject was presented during the international conference Football: Politics of the Global Game, which was held at the University of Warsaw on November 2018.

摘要

本文的目的是指出足球外交的成功和失败方面。将呈现两个案例：1998 年法国世界杯期间美国和伊朗交涉和 2015 年国际足联主席的巴以外交使团之间的比赛。这两个案例都将根据对国际关系参与者的意义进行分析——他们是什么背景和效果。名义上的成功和失败与那些在评估中模棱两可的案件有关。非政治演员的角色也将被强调，因为他们的行为超越了体育领域。如果足球外交在这些情况下可能产生其他影响，作者将对所有这些要素进行评估并发表评论。这个主题是在2018 年 11 月在华沙大学举行的国际会议足球：全球游戏的政治中提出的。