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Soccer in Brazil

by Martin Curi
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780367739676
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 196
  • Original Price: GBP 44.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 377 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Football

No other national stereotype in the world is so closely tied with a sport, as Brazil is with football. The five-time world champions have constructed their national identity around this sport. Perhaps for this reason it's no wonder that there are many Brazilian social scientists doing research on this theme.

The first part of this volume is dedicated to the history of Brazilian football. The main question is how did football become so popular in the country? It also looks at other interesting historical developments in Brazilian football history up to this day. The second part considers current phenomena, especially the place of Brazilian football in a globalized world: What are the consequences of an extremely commercialized and mediatized sport on a developing country? How does Brazil figure as the main supplying country of football talents? How does the population feel about seeing their players in Europe instead of their own country?

Finally, the book will conclude with a critique of a documentary film about a Brazilian national team game in Haiti which was part of the Brazilian army's blue helmet mission. The game was used as a political instrument, revealing the importance of this sport in attaining a political position for Brazil in the world.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Martin Curi (Museu Nacional - UFRJ) has made his PhD in social anthropology at UFF - the Federal Fluminense University, in Niteroi. His main focus is on football fans, not only supporters at the local level, but he has also conducted extensive fieldwork at Euro 2004 in Portugal, the World Cup 2006 in Germany, and the Pan-American Games 2007 in Rio de Janeiro. In 2013 he published his book Brasilien - Land des Fußballs (Brazil - Land of Football) in Germany.

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