Fussball und Nationalstolz in Deutschland

Based on a representative longitudinal study around the 2016 European Football Championship, the book explores the relationship between soccer and national pride. It shows how identification with the national soccer team goes hand in hand with a sense of attachment to the nation-state and expressive patriotic behaviors. In which population groups such football-related patriotism is more widespread is discussed, as well as the question by which conditions and mechanisms it is evoked or reinforced. It is empirically shown whether football-related national pride is harmless or dangerous, exclusionary or inclusive, fleeting or long-lasting. With these topics and questions, the book uses the example of soccer to show concretely and vividly how top-level sport can have a deep impact on society.