Introduction: The Importance (or not) of being a State
Recent events in the Spanish region of Catalonia have fiercely awoken the need to rethink the way football interacts with Nationalism and aim to represent “your country” at International Championships. Any football fan who enjoys statistics and sports-data has always wondered why some stateless groups or regions have their own National football team - the world’s most played sport.[1] As a consequence, these “stateless entities” are competing against “real” nation-states on equal terms. Most of the time, we tend to forget the reasons behind that and we are just amused by the exotic players and bizarre tactics of Macau national football team or teams from Gibraltar playing the first Champions League qualifying round.[2] But as the wheel of the world keeps...
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