The sport known as it is today, or the Modern Sport, takes shape in the schools of eighteenth-century England, the cradle capitalism.
Surrounded by capitalist ideology, which preaches order, rationalism, competition and individual initiative, students in English schools develop a new format for the popular game then giving rise to the sport. Arise championships between schools, clubs and confederations after, instruments will gradually legitimizing the sport.
After the consolidation of capitalism and its spread throughout the world, the sports institution, previously restricted to the European world, is gaining space in other continents. Following the same logic of capitalist voracity, Sport meddles crops and take the space of popular practices, serving the capitalist ideology worldwide.

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Nearly all modern sports arise as sports after the year 1800.