Football violence analysis
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Football Violence
Introduction
Foul play plays a large part in the discussion of today's soccer. Soccer, rooted in a bloody past with its links to ancient ball games, such as the Persian buzkashi, Mesoamerican peloya and the Roman game of harpastum, which in all, generally involved extreme violence, blood sacrifices and heavy injuries (Peiser, 1996).
From these roots arose today's most popular sport, where the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) represented, in 1993 up to around 150
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and M. Hughes), pp. 295 - 297. London: E & FN Spon. Reilly, T. and Thomas, V. (1976). A Motion Analysis of Work-Rate in Different Positional Roles in Professional Football Match-Play. Journal of Human Movement Studies, 2, 87 - 97. Terry, P.C. and Jackson, J.J. (1985). The Determinants and Control of Violence in Sports. Quest, 37, 27 - 37. Tharion, W.J., Strowman, S.R. and Rauch, T.M. (1988). Profile and Changes in Moods of Ultramarathoners. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 10, 229 - 235.