Symbolic war in the field values: Geopolitical competition and international sport matches

Occurrence of war and geopolitical competitions are resulting from the actions of the human communities’ competitions for values and gaining the material and spiritual interests. The classic war is revealed in a contrast between forces and military equipment. The war stimulus is based on the principle of innate desires for campaigning, defeating the enemy, and gaining the value. Thus, the symbolic form of war is unfolded when these desires find the favorable social bed for activism. Meanwhile, the area of sporting competition is a suitable bed for revealing the symbols and ritual of war as well as the geopolitical competitions (campaigning and defeating the enemy). So, the purpose of this essay is based on answer to this question that what is the ratio between competitive sports and the geopolitical rivals. This essay is based on this assumption that the field of international sporting competitions which intervenes with the area of geopolitical competitions in power concepts, competition, and national values is an arena of a symbolic fighting between nations and states. Thus, the states are forced to fight each other to succeed in this arena. This battle and conflict is resulting from the difference between the perception of interests and values with distinct and diverse human identities in community on one hand, and the revealing of the instinct of geopolitical competition and war (political field) in social area, on the other hand.