The paper deals with the close relationship between sport, socialization and formal education focusing both on positive and negative funtions of sport activities illustrated with the case of football as organized social rite. The author also presents interesting element revealing the social function of the mediated football: the soccer is suitable to represent and stenghten the central cultural values and norms of (post)modern sociey – cooperation, succes, attitudes toward rules, the experience of winning and loosing.

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