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| | Bar-On: Ambiguities of Football |
 | | In the three previous sections, football was examined as a 'top-down' mechanism of political manipulation by cultural, political, and socio-economic elites in the creation of discourses of statehood; by politicians and generals for 'constructive' purposes; and by various Latin American elites as an arena of class warfare. |
 | | Football in the region has tended to reinforce traditional hegemonic notions about sport and the maintenance of the social peace and status quo, or been used in the harnessing of nationalistic, authoritarian, gender-specific, and class-based ends. |
 | | Professional football has rarely entered into a sustained and 'authentic' political dialogue with emerging social movements or the larger Latin American society about the most pressing issues of the age and region, be it environmental destruction, the breakdown of communities and identities, unemployment, mass starvation, government corruption, or a de facto corporate and military rule. |
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