“This is Dinamo!” - the phenomenon of futsal Dinamo as an alternative fan club

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Šantek, G. P., & Vukušić, D. (2016). “This is Dinamo!” - the phenomenon of futsal Dinamo as an alternative fan club, 64(2), 289-302. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611602289S
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Title

“This is Dinamo!” - the phenomenon of futsal Dinamo as an alternative fan club

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Author

Goran, Pavel, Šantek, Dino, Vukušić

Journal

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

Volume
Issue

2

Start page

289

End page

302

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611602289S

Date

2016-2020/03/24/15:03:23

Abstract

This paper discusses the fan project of Futsal Dinamo as an alternative club to GNK Dinamo from Zagreb, Croatia. After contextualizing the problem which led to the foundation of this club, media reports about it are analyzed and an ethnographic description of a championship game is given. The struggle for Dinamo is interpreted as a fight for the club’s democratization, which is the fight for returning football to a state when clubs were still the connective tissue of the local community, the expression of its identity and a cultural phenomenon whose emotional strength is more important than its economic benefits. Due to the different structural positions of fans and the club management, the dispute between them is seen as one of the expressions of struggle and resistance of a subordinated social group.

Keywords

resistance, football fans, Dinamo Zagreb, futsal