User:Malachi02/Globalization of sports

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=== Lead Globalization of sports refers to the process of expansion of the idea of sport across the world and phenomena is how that are associated with it. The field of sports in the 20th-21st century was influenced by the process of globalization. Globalization not only impacts the way in which sports are conducted and organized but also how they are perceived and what they mean in today's world. Citizens of non-participating countries can also watch and enjoy the live sports. Sports has expanded within the different nationalities associated in different sports. The first professional league established in the united states started in the late 1800s. Professional sports has expanded all across the world and its brought many different nationalities in all different sports such as American Football, basketball with international players all inside the NBA coming to the united states to play basketball here because it gives them a better opportunity   as well as  soccer with it  being the most globalized sport with its Varity of different nationalities utilize all inside the sport. ===

=== Article body the roots of modern sports can be found in the mid-nineteenth century in Great Britain and the United States where first professional sports were organized in mining and industrial towns and cities. Back then, sport competition was conducted mostly on local and national level. First signs of globalization in that matter appeared because of the global hegemonic position that Great Britain had in the nineteenth century. Due to the British influence, popularity of such sports as football, rugby or cricket grew all over the world, replacing traditional local games. ===