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Cultural Differences, Assimilation and Behavior: Player Nationality and Penalties in Football

2011; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.1995462

1556-5068

Giacomo De Luca, Jeroen Schokkaert, Johan Swinnen,

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

We examine the impact of a different cultural background on individual behavior, focusing on penalties in football matches of southern European and northern European football players in the English Premier League. Southern European football players collect on average more football penalties than their British colleagues and northern European football players collect on average less football penalties than their British colleagues. The number of football penalties incurred by southern European players is initially higher but converges towards the local average the longer their experience in the English Premier League.