274 KB0 KB199220252005Starc, Gregorletnik:11številka:2str. 64-88ISSN:1318-2269COBISSID:2642097URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-HASB13EUenFakulteta za šport, Inštitut za kineziologijoKinesiologia SlovenicaJugoslavijanacionalna identitetanogometSlovenijasmučanješportTwo sides of the same coin: skiing and football in the Slovenian nation-building process| Dve strani istega kovanca: smučanje in nogomet v procesu izgradnje slovenske nacije|The shrinking ability of Yugoslavs to imagine themselves as a single unitary nation was further challenged in the 1980s by discourses that asserted the national purity and distinctiveness of every Yugoslav nation. This was especially visible in the field of sports. Slovenian national identification from the 1980s onward was particularly influenced by two sports - skiing and football. International successes of Slovenian Alpine skiers in the late 1970s and the 1980s triggered a skiing frenzy in Slovenia and turned this sportinto one of the most distinctive items of Slovenian national identification. Football, on the other hand, has been traditionally perceived as a non-Slovenian sport. Slovenian football clubs rarely qualified to play in the first Yugoslav national league and individual Slovenian players were almost entirely absent from the Yugoslav national football team. Despite the alleged Slovenianness of skiing and non-Slovenianness of football, the nationalist potential of both sports was not politically important as long as the discourse of brotherhood and unity of the Yugoslav nations still applied. However, after this discourse was shattered by growing local nationalisms neither sport continued to play a unifying role but started to function as dividing mechanisms. In this regard, skiing was through its various popular forms and the development of the national economy legitimised as a revived Slovenian tradition while football was negatively branded as a foreign cultural practiceTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za šport