The article is an attempt, based on ethnographic field research carried out by the author, at an anthropological analysis of the Internet soccer manager Hattrick. It focuses on the description of the online game as an institution understood verbally, created as a result of symbolic practices of its members. The author aims at showing the way in which soccer may function as social context where contacts between individual participants of the virtual world are formed and maintained. He also asks about the relationship of that universe with the world outside of the computer screen.
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