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Perceptions of Ethnic Diversity in the French and German National Team

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The European Football Championship

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National football teams are more than simple line-ups for sports competitions. Especially during international tournaments they are heavily charged with symbolic meaning and serve as powerful projection screen for the national community.

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  1. Middle East Technical University, Turkey

    Başak Alpan

  2. University of Vienna, Austria

    Alexandra Schwell

  3. ESSCA School of Management, France

    Albrecht Sonntag

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Sonntag, A. (2015). Up to the Expectations?. In: Alpan, B., Schwell, A., Sonntag, A. (eds) The European Football Championship. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455062_5

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