RT Journal Article
T1 Spanish fury: football and national identities under Franco
A1 Quiroga Fernández De Soto, Alejandro
AB This article explores the Franco dictatorship's utilization of football for nationalist indoctrination. It focuses on the Francoist appropriation of Spanish football victories and the promotion of a collective identity that portrayed Spaniards as ferocious, passionate and quixotic. The paper challenges the traditional view that Francoists sought to obliterate regional identities after the Spanish Civil War. As in the case of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Francoism cultivated certain types of regional identities via sports, seeking to introduce an element of populism and grassroots activism into the dictatorship. Football was also used by the anti-Francoist opposition to foster counter-hegemonic national identities. This article analyses how Spanish democrats, Catalan regionalists and Basque nationalists found in football a suitable means to build alternative identities. The conclusions show that whereas the political nationalism fostered by the Franco regime had little impact on Spaniards, the cultural features and stereotypes associated with the Spanish nation were adopted by different sectors of society.
PB Sage Journals
SN 0265-6914
SN 1461-7110
YR 2015
FD 2015-06-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117837
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117837
LA eng
NO Quiroga, A. (2015). Spanish Fury: Football and National Identities under Franco. European History Quarterly, 45(3), 506-529. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691415587686
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025