Institucionalización del fútbol en el ejército español (1919-1920)

Abstract

The object of study focuses on analysing how, when and why was incorporated and institutionalized football in the Spanish army and what was its impact on further development and overcrowding. From the original texts and critical discourse analysis offer an original interpretation of this process from the social historical, when football becomes a subtle instrument for the underlying branches of government. In the context of a national war situation (Morocco War, 1909-1927) and international (World War I, 1914-1918), the regenerationist speech in favour of football as a sport to promote their values and conditions in the process of physical preparation of the Spanish military troops sparked an intense debate over its introduction in the Spanish military. The echoes of the practice and dissemination of football in the First World War and the Allied triumph by imposing their model (also sports), the growing number of football in the Spanish territory with a high growth of practitioners and the creation of new clubs, the success of Spanish football in the Olympics in Antwerp in 1920 brought the birth of the ‘Spanish fury’ and the close analogy in military terminology and football sports lexicon contributed to its institutionalization in the Spanish army from 1919 1920. After these conditions the roots of what we call the Spanish football patriotism, a symbolic construction that has survived to this day as a propaganda device identity and promoted by various powers of the state to exercise social control of the masses and promote cohesion are rooted national.