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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?

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The World Cup football match and the Olympics are held worldwide with great national support and expectations. As a fan of those competitions, I agree with the idea that sporting events can be necessary for international relations and national unity. In the essay, I will express my views about the effects of these popular sporting events.
First
 of all, the World Cup, Olympics and other international games are played for easing tensions among different nations.
For example
, South and North Korea have football games
regularly which
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regularly, which
 give the different nations a chance to understand each other deeply. In the mid 1990s, Hundreds of North Korean supporters came to South Korea with the footballers and they were very excited during the sporting events. Even if it sounds ridiculous, many South Koreans were quite surprised at that moment when North Koreans shouted and cried during the match. We all realized that they were very normal sports fans even though they were occasionally very secretive. Through the sports
,
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,
the divided nations can reduce their political and ideological tensions and could feel the patriotic unity.
On the other hand
, some sports matches can make international relations much worse.
For instance
, football or baseball games between Korea and Japan are always big matches where generates a lot of tension. Sometimes, after the match, the two rivals blame each other and their patriotic emotions explode in an aggressive way. The worst case is that the troubles caused by losing games affect the players directly. In conclusion, I think that international sporting occasions can be one of
the good
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the best
 ways to ease tensions or to release patriotism safely.
However
, I believe that games should not be the fundamental ways for the sound patriotism or peaceful international relations.

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