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What is Football Match

Chapter 7
Narrative Theory and Therapy in the Post-Truth Era
A football match is a team sport played with a distinctive spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. In a match consisting of 90 minutes divided into two forty-five-minute halves, the team that manages to score more goals than the opposing team wins, but if the number of goals scored is equal, the match is ended in a draw.
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Truth in Football From the “Hand of God” to VAR
Esennur Sirer (University of Usküdar, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9251-9.ch007
Abstract
Today, dozens of cameras are placed at various points on the football field, making sure that no detail is overlooked. The positions are reviewed using the video assistant system (VAR). However, despite the existence of live broadcast cameras and their technology-integrated structure, there is a position to be discussed after the match; the truth is reinterpreted. As Umberto Eco emphasizes, live-action, where television time and real-time are closest to each other, is not a mere repetition of an event, but an interpretation. In the chapter, the poetics of truth in football is discussed in the historical and technological process.
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