Football as a choreography

Abstract

Th is text examines the similarities between football and dance. In doing so,
the focus is not on the many possible metaphoric relationships between football
and dance. Th is happens for example when fi lm clips of football games
are called ‘football ballet’, or when fans are dancing Samba, or when players
perform a dance with corner fl ags. Th e text rather aims to answer the question
which structural characteristics football and dance share.