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This chapter analysed a nuanced discussion on the legitimacy of the event. It presents the critique of the tournament and urban politics, and subsequent negotiations of the course of modernization and development of the region and the country.
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Against Modern Football has not been mentioned before in the book, although it often came up in my conversations. AMF’s motto “Hate the business – love the game” aptly explains the movement’s philosophy, i.e. standing against the ongoing commercialization and privatization of football.
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Kowalska, M.Z. (2017). “The City Is Not a Company”. Or Is It?. In: Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52105-3_4
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