ABSTRACT

Football clubs located within competitive metropolitan spaces and owned by local municipalities develop their socio-spatiality through strong multiscalarities. Drawing from the sociology of football, human geography, geopolitical economy and urban studies, our study reveals that, within the competitive metropolitan city-region space, politico-institutional actors may capture small football clubs and competition and exploit them through various scenarios that reflect the politico-institutional scaffolding of local, regional or national scales, or the political, social and economic imaginaries or practices of the politico-institutional actors. Our case study deals with the small clubs from Ilfov county in Romania, which is part of the city-region developed around the global city of Bucharest. Over the last two decades, the Ilfov county has become the most represented county in the first two tiers of the Romanian football league system. Prior to that, clubs from Ilfov were absent from the first tiers. To examine the scalarity of football clubs from Ilfov, we analyse the socio-spatialities of (1) their success in terms of investment, (2) their club identity and (3) the scalar networks involved in hosting international tournaments.

摘要

位于竞争激烈的大都市空间内并由当地市政当局拥有的足球俱乐部通过强大的多尺度性发展其社会空间性。借鉴足球社会学、人文地理学、地缘政治经济和城市研究，我们的研究表明，在竞争激烈的大都市城市区域空间内，政治机构参与者可能会抓住小型足球俱乐部和比赛，并通过各种反映地方、区域或国家尺度的政治体制支架，或政治体制参与者的政治、社会和经济想象或实践。我们的案例研究涉及罗马尼亚伊尔福夫县的小俱乐部，该县是围绕全球城市布加勒斯特发展的城市区域的一部分。在过去的二十年里，伊尔福夫县已成为罗马尼亚足球联赛系统前两级中代表性最多的县。在此之前，来自伊尔福夫的俱乐部缺席了一线队。为了检验 Ilfov 足球俱乐部的规模性，我们分析了 (1) 他们在投资方面的成功，(2) 他们的俱乐部身份和 (3) 举办国际比赛所涉及的标量网络。