Popular events like the football World Cup and other international sporting occasions are essential in easing international tensions and releasing patriotic emotions in a safe way. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion. Include your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.

International sporting events like the

football

World

Cup, the Olympics and the Paralympics have not only strengthened

bonds

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the bonds

between different countries, but have

also

bolstered patriotic spirits in a healthy way. While, some people might argue that these international sporting

occassions

something you have to do

occasions

occasion

have little or no effect in improving international tensions and are a waste of money, the benefits of these events are way too many and it outweighs the negative sides. In

this

essay, I will discuss the various reasons how international sports help in strengthening

socio

relating to human society and its members

social

-political ties between countries and support my views with relevant examples. Sports have an amazing, unique, and

positive impact

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a positive impact

on the society by boosting economic growth and encouraging business. The contribution to employment is even greater, sports and sports related activities generate a variety of jobs which includes far more than just the athletes. To name a few, coaches, referees, agents, front office personnels, stadium vendors and their employees are some of the categories.

For example

, in the U.K alone, London Olympics had generated 400,000 full time equivalent jobs which is 4% of all jobs in the

country

. Sports serves as a means to

influence diplomatic

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influence, diplomatic

, political and social relations and transcends cultural differences by bringing people together. Hundreds and thousands of fans from countries all over the planet, seem to have set aside their racial, cultural, and religious differences and bond merrily over the game of

football

.

Such

as, the

football

world

cup in 2010, held in South Africa attracted over 2.3 billion people from over 60 different countries across 6 major continents. International sporting

occassions

something you have to do

occasions

also serves

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also serve

as a platform for people to unite and support their

country

. There is a certain togetherness, a certain camaraderie that total strangers can achieve simply by virtue of belonging to the same nationality and rooting for the same team. Illustrated, by the

football

world

cup match held in 2014, where a record breaking 200,000 tickets were sold only to the U.S residents. Fans poured in from all the 50 states of the

country

, right from New York in the western part to California

in

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on

the eastern coast. Another big evidence is the European

football

, where the game itself and the stadiums have emerged as a basis of political expression and basis of recent collective memory. Soccer has been historically able to simultaneously maintain the differences that give each European

country

their own sense of identity as well as strengthen the bonds that bind them together as one body. In conclusion sports play an important part in the universal culture. Even though, some people might argue that in match of nationalism versus globalism, nationalism wins, I strongly agree that international sporting events like

football

and

olympics

the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country

Olympics

promotes globalisation and is a great sanction tool in International relations. It is an important means of combining different people in the

world

and is an activity that contributes to

world

peace.