How is football representative of a global culture?

Children have the pleasure of kicking their feet in a balloon and watching it roll. Football is innate for humans all over the planet, whether in poor countries or in the richest.

The most played sport in the world, football has little choice: a ball. Football touches the whole planet. Far ahead of the Summer Olympics, a FIFA World Cup is the event attracting the most spectators, physical or in front of their TV.

By encouraging dialogue between peoples, football, in particular, can be seen as promoting change of mentality and the advancement of human rights. Football is credited with promoting gender parity, combating racism and intolerance, and freedom of expression.

Football is a universal language that can help bridge the divides and promote the values necessary for peace. In the field, cultural differences and priorities fade away. One of the benefits of this sport is that it brings people together.

Football occupies a central place in the South African cultural scene. The British, who were the inventors of football, exported this English cultural practice. Football in South Africa arrived at the beginning of the 20th century. The first African clubs were in South Africa

Football helps to change culture. Thanks to sports performances, thanks to their role of the social model, football can give meaning and social recognition to a certain population. I think of players of very modest origin. Thanks to football, they can change their social destination. Footballers abroad can bring another vision of South Africa to the outside world. Football can help bring South Africans together.