Amor à camisa? : conciliando razão e paixão no ambiente do futebol profissional
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2010-03-31
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Alves, Fábio Padilha
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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We notice that the rationalization of practices that involve the professional soccer in
Brazil has been more present, mostly intensified after the release of the law number
9615/98 (“Pelé Law”). This way, we have seen the insertion of business elements on
clubs administration, which have transformed this sport into a great business.
Another important characteristic of professional soccer, intensified in Brazilin the past
years, is the great turnover of players, favored by the heating of the foot labor
market. Especially motivated by professional matters – salary, working conditions
and visibility – the athletes face apparent new scenery on the relations that involve
soccer: the necessity to conciliate their own interests and the passion of the fans. So,
there is a field of tensions inside opposing logics in which the athletes need to know
how to deal with. So, this work aims at investigating the existence of such tensions
on professional soccer, checking how the athletes build mediation strategies for the
tensions that involve the rationality of the professional practice and the fans’ passion.
In order to accomplish so, nine professional and former athletes who played in
different clubs during their careers were interviewed. Through this research we have
noticed that this commodification of soccer decisively influences the relation between
athletes, fans and clubs. In this context, it must be detached the fact that players
consider it important to stay a longer period in a club, claiming that this is a
fundamental condition to create affective bonds, to participate on the community
imagined by the fans and become an idol. However, due to ease salary gains that
arise from transactions, the same players prefer to “slue around” instead of remaining
at a club. In summary, we can say that the attempts of conciliation which were
mapped do not mean a cold attitude or a negation of the practice, rational dimension
of professional soccer, but a specific elaboration, necessary for a practice that, even
in its professional dimension, seems to resist to rationalization
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Football fans , Identity , Professional soccer , Athlete , Futebol profissional , Torcida