Theoretical-methodological remarks about the football diffusion

Abstract

Before to become the most practised sport nowadays, football experienced a broad and complex spatial diffusion process, departing from Victorian England toward diverse regions of the planet. In order to contribute in the making of a geographic methodology about this phenomenon, we debate the uniqueness of the football as an innovation. We also offer theoretical-conceptual elements toward a spatial diffusion study of football. We intend to show the viability of this kind of investigation, as well as to contribute in understanding the evolution process that involves an important social phenomenon of the contemporaneous world.