Can you define football as a business, as an industry?
“Businesses are driven by the need to make money and trumpet their profits to their investors or owners. But all football teams care about is winning for the fans.” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1898854.stm) So football teams can not be defined as proper businesses according to the definition.
But still, no one can deny that football is an industry that advertises companies, that gives millions of job opportunuties, that increases touristic incomes, that triggers nationalism, and something that psychologically brings people together. It gives job opportunuties to people with low educational level or high educational level. During a game, there is no difference between the richest and the poorest. When your team wins a game, there is nothing that can make you happier in that particular moment. While watching a national game, people forget about wars, economical crises, global warming and any kind of problems. It brings togetherness.
Everyone can say football is a vicious circle, earning money and spending more to grow, but the fact that they produce happiness and togetherness can not be ignored. It is the biggest profit and it is what people need, even more than money. The amount that players earn is not even worth talking about, they deserve every penny of it.
Bibliography:
“The Business of Football.” BBC News. BBC, 28 Mar. 2002. Web. 08 Oct. 2012. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1898854.stm>.