ABSTRACT
Online pages and chatrooms have emerged as important spaces to explore how football fans in the diaspora engage and participate in national team discussions. The rise of social media technologies has enhanced the connections and interactions of virtual communities. This chapter explores how social media platforms have provided a space to examine the ways in which Zimbabweans in the diaspora engage with football as a place to negotiate, act out, and express national pride and patriotism. The analysis reveals that the internet serves an important role for transnational communities that are in continuous cyber contact through the examination of Zimbabweans located outside the country who are engaging in fandom cultures around the men's national football team. The national team, known as the Warriors, have in recent years suffered multiple disappointments. The focus of this chapter is to understand specifically how diasporic Zimbabweans have responded to the problems facing the Zimbabwean national team through online interaction.
