Social Value Of Football Matches

With the advancement of human society and its civilization, football has progressed from the original "game" to a fierce, exciting and unpredictable modern sport which involves consummate skills, intelligence and passion. Nowadays, the significance of football lies more in social culture than in game or sports, for embodied in football are such social factors as man and tools, individual and group, contact and communication, competition and collaboration, adjustment and innovation. Football, "the World Number One Sport", tremendously benefits the human society both economically and spiritually and demonstrates in its rapid growth its remarkable social value as an influential social and cultural activity.Based on theories of sociology of sport, the thesis makes a study on the value of football. With the documentary data, the thesis analyzes football's political, economic and cultural values are also explored in the paper to find out how the sport accelerates the healthy and harmonious development of human society. The thesis then touches upon the negative social factors concerned with football; and finally viewpoints are elaborated on how to improve football's social value and how to create a favorable football circumstance.In terms of the positive social value of football game, it boosts politics, economy, culture and sports itself. Modern football game is endowed with the political function in advocating sports spirit and strengthening cohesion of humankind. In the world of business, this game brings the society huge economic benefit. Football game also exerts positive influence on social culture by satisfying people's need for aesthetic and entertaining life. Besides, football game can drive the development of other related athletic sports and the mass sports as a whole. However, many negative social elements do exist in football game, which is mainly caused by large number of participants and riot-prone intervention of football fans into match disputes. Therefore, efforts should be made to increase the social value of football game in our country, and such methods as ideological education are supposed to be employed to eliminate the negative impact and to carry forward its positive function in the healthy and harmonious development of human society.