This study examines how match outcomes influence normalized digital fan engagement on the official Instagram accounts of Indonesian football clubs. Analysing 611 full-time result posts from the 2024-2025 BRI Liga 1 season, the research utilizes normalized Like, Comment, and Share Rates to ensure equitable comparison across clubs of varying sizes. One-way ANOVA reveals that match results significantly impact all forms of interaction. Findings demonstrate a clear behavioural divide: victories trigger 'Quiet Amplification' through likes and shares, while defeats catalyse 'Vocal Discourse' via surging comment rates. This pattern indicates that success is celebrated through passive endorsement, whereas failure is processed through active discursive labour. By documenting the intensity of Global South fandom, the study provides a strategic roadmap for clubs to navigate high-discursive intensity following losses.
This study examines how ordinary football supporters position themselves within the neoliberal transformation of Brazilian football. Drawing on Bourdieu's relational sociology and Lebaron's concept of economic ethos, it analyzes how the opposition between 'traditional' and 'modern' football reflects structured moral and economic dispositions rather than mere cultural preferences. Survey data from 283 supporters of Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras were analysed using Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Class Specific Analysis. The findings reveal a central struggle between a systemic ethos aligned with neoliberal rationality, consumerism, and market-oriented club management, and an anti-systemic ethos rooted in symbolic belonging, collective participation, and resistance to commodification. Stadium attendance, religious affiliation, and modes of support emerge as key structuring factors. The article shows that ordinary supporters actively interpret and negotiate football's political economy, highlighting fandom as a moral arena in which neoliberal pressures are contested in everyday practice.
Barrabases was the most popular children's soccer comic in Chile and the first of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world. Created by cartoonist Guido Vallejos, it centred on the mischievous Barrabases team from the fictional town Happy Village. It blended humour, sportsmanship, and moral lessons with vivid depictions of teamwork, discipline, and civic responsibility. Across four editorial periods (1954-1962, 1970-1974, 1975-1980, 1989-2006), the comic reflected Chile's shifting political landscape, from developmentalist optimism to authoritarianism and democratic revival. This article explores the first editorial era analysing how Barrabases encoded youth morality, masculine archetypes, racialized bodies, class tensions, and active audience participation. By aligning its narratives with state ideals and national identity while reproducing racial hierarchies and excluding women from soccer, the comic became both entertainment and a civic primer. It offered Chilean children a model of conduct, embedding notions of fair play and collective identity within mid-twentieth-century Chilean mass culture.
The paper examines how national federation narratives shape talent development pathways for female youth football in India and whether state-level archival participation records in West Bengal, a historical football hub in India, enact or obscure those narratives. Framed as a case study of West Bengal, the research conducts a discourse analysis of the All India Football Federation's (AIFF) Vision 2047 (Phase 1, 2023-2026) and systematically examines the state team rosters and registration data sets from the same period. The study combines critical discourse techniques with an archival lens to show how missing fields (i.e. socio-economic indicators, district representation) and registration practices shape what counts as talent. The analysis indicates a consistent promotion of women's development at the national level (through new leagues or strategic targets), while state-level records remain fragmentary, not regionally classified, and are largely devoid of socio-demographic markers that are necessary for equitable talent identification.
Walking Football is a modified sport designed to be more inclusive and is rapidly gaining popularity. Walking Football has demonstrated potential health benefits in physical, psychological, and social aspects. Despite its popularity, research into this adapted sport is still in its infancy. This study aimed to understand the perspectives of Walking Football throughout Wales using a cross-sectional survey approach developed using the biopsychosocial model of health and previous research. The survey incorporated various scales, such as the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales, the Social Provision Scale, and a selection from a self-assessment tool to evaluate older adults' perceptions of physical fitness and exercise activity. These scales, in conjunction with specific questions adapted from previous research, provided valuable insights. The findings revealed that Walking Football participants held positive views regarding the sport's impact on their physical, psychological, and social health while also offering recommendations for its further growth and development.
