The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Soccer Media

Soccer is one of the most famous sports in the world. One important reason is that it has many different kinds of matches. Because of that, it need a big media system to support them. For example, an exciting and attractive soccer match is coming that night. There are many media such as newspaper, television, Internet will focus on the per news of the match which including locale weather, news about two teams, first formation and so on. Identically, there are also lots of news after matching. So, the various of the matches make many news everyday including the result of match, soccer player news, the management events of the team, etc. These news are posted on TV, Internet and newspaper everyday to catch people eyes. Becoming a habit for people to look some soccer news everyday. So soccer can be showed and cared by people, which letting it popular all the time.

There are many media which mainly focus on soccer. Sky sports is one of the most famous one, it is widely report soccer news in different medium like television and newspaper. Other media like , L'Équipe, 《La Gazzetta Dello Sport》, Marca, NBC, ESPN, NGSN.

Here is a link for Sky Sports: http://www.skysports.com/

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: All Kinds of Soccer Matches

The various of soccer matches can be basically divided to two parts, club league match and international competition. Club league match is in a country which has many private self-management football club to compete each other by weekly matches in a season once a year. Nowadays, club league match is common and wide in many countries like England, Spain, Germany, Italy and so on. These matches are held about 9 months in every year. So it likes our life will happen everyday. there are also have two kinds matches in club league which are during the league season. One is some championships in the country league, the other is intercontinental matches like UEFA Champions League and Liberators of the Americas Cup. International competition is a national team of a country. The team is represent their country to compete. These matches are always held fourth a year. The most famous one is the World Cup. It is a very exciting and royal event for all the people in the world, like a Carnival. Except the World Cup, there are also have many other international competitions like European Football Championship, AFC Asian Cup and Copa América.



Here is a link about the introduction of the World Cup.  http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/brazil2014/

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Female in Soccer

This is my first blog to post in Media 10. The topic is about the diversity of soccer culture. I will focus on this topic, to study and research them in this semester. It's exciting and challenging for me. Because it is the first media class for me, and I will learn a lot of interesting things about media. I think it will be very funny.

I will talk about soccer culture. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world. It's full of passion and energy. Many people keen on soccer. They play soccer with their friends, they watch soccer games every week, they crazy about the skills of soccer. But, if you talk to someone about soccer, the first image come out is men. A man soccer player, a man soccer fan, etc. Actually, it just a few years idea. Nowadays, female in soccer is more and more popular and normally. Since 1991, Federation International Football Association announce that the women's soccer officially be held in the World Cup. It showed that women has joined in soccer. But, at that time, it is not popular enough to catch people eyes. With the development of soccer, also women's soccer. More and more female curious about soccer. In some country, they have advanced women's soccer system to train women playing soccer like Unite States and Germany. Many girls see soccer as their first sport choice. More and more female become a soccer fan, more and more female join in the big soccer family. Through the development and the spread of media, soccer is no longer a men's game.

Here is a link of the Unite State International Women's Soccer Team. There are many introduction about women's soccer. 

http://www.ussoccer.com/womens-national-team