How soccer influence the economy of a country. (Where soccer is part of the culture).

Diego Serani

Eng. 110/ Kebrdle

How soccer influence the economy of a country. (Where soccer is part of the culture).

09/07/2016

Soccer is clearly the most popular sport in terms of fans. The FIFA World Cup is played every four years has a huge TV audience - over 30 billion people watched the 2006 World Cup in Germany ,I know that's more than the world's population, this figure is an 'accumulated' audience. There is also people that don´t like it but what they can´t deny is that it influence a lot in the economy of a country.

Soccer improves tourism, watching a game at the stadium can be a familiar activity or a good plan with friends. Tournaments like the world cup make people from all around the world travel to the country that is hosting the event, at this time of the year airlines improve their sells significantly and gas station also sell a lot more gas. While people are in the country that is hosting the tournament they spend a lot of money on food, gas, hotels, medicine, etc. This helps a lot the economy of the country. A good example was a tournament hosted by Brazil, they had a bad economy but they spend money in stadiums, this may seem absurd but after the final they had improve significantly economically.

Some people ask themselves if it is good that soccer influence so much in a country, I have two answers to them. It can be bad sometimes, for example, there are some countries that are not good economically and they still spend lots of money on stadiums and publicity. In this same conditions people also spend money in tickets for the games, this can also increase robbery, it may sound exaggerated but people in some countries do whatever they need in order to go watch their team play.

It can also be good. Sometimes the economy of a country is not good and a team that it´s sponsored by different local brands that have their logo in the jersey make a good role in an international tournament, the local brands start being recognized and this better the economy because it may sound irrelevant but if team play good and win people start following this team and this logos are part of the image of the club, people also buy the shirts and wear them, this is like publicity for them because more people see them.

Soccer creates jobs inside the club. They need a coach to guide the team, players to participate, managers and president to manage the economy of the team, etc.

It also creates jobs outside the club like souse companies because people see players use an specific type of cleats and they buy the same, same thing with the cloth companies, the construction companies are beneficiated by soccer because the construct the facilities they need, soccer gives sports news programs something to work with, social media public soccer images and videos, etc.

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