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James Hilditch Grade 10 Humanities “Secretary” 13/09/11 Globalization of Sport
 * || [|jhilditch1] Sep 13, 2011 10:42 pm

We started off the lesson with a quiz: 1. Name one Football player 2. Name one basketball player 3. Names one baseball player 4. Name one winner of the Tour de France 5. Name one winner of the Masters Open 6. Name one team with players from a foreign country 7. Name one person who won a gold medal in Beijing in 2008 8. Name one Nike spokesman 9. Name three sport sponsors 10. - (help!?) Key terms: 1. Modern Industrial Market Capitalism 2. Transnational Corporation

a) Modern Industrial Market Capitalism: Modern nations try to be this. The country uses the market as an industry to make money off of. This is where the globalization of sport comes in. During the era of industrialization Wimbledon was created. For those who don’t know what that is, Wimbledon is one of four big tournaments in Tennis, it is hosted in England in the spring. In addition to Wimbledon, we see multiple competitions popping up. This is the start, as sport is related to business and commerce, what follows is this: 1. Increase in the number of paid sportsmen. This means that now we would see professionals competing in the Olympics, versus only amateurs. 2. Broadcasting 3. Transnational Corporation

b) Transnational Corporation This is when a team becomes more than a team and more about making money. At the end of the day football, basketball, etc. are all about money. A club’s 10 year hero will leave for two bob while the owners see it as getting an old person off their wage bill. It’s about how they can make money not about the club. The club becomes involved overseas (hence transnational). Take Manchester United, for example. You could go to Vietnam, Hanoi and buy a Manchester United shirt, footballs, watches, condoms, almost anything with Manchester United’s logo on it.

We then went on to talk about how sports spread. The picture of the Arab businessmen and the Western-looking hockey players summed it up. A sport goes where the money is. If Bill Gates wants a checkers team he will get a checkers team. However, it’s not always so black and white; it sometimes depends on who was where. The British Empire went to India, South Africa, and Australia. All these countries are huge cricketing country, why, because the British Empire was there. Football is the best example because it spread like wildfire. Pieter said that 87 % of kids want to be footballer when they grow up. ||