关键词:
FOOTBALL -- History
NONFICTION
摘要:
Both the sport and the timing of its introduction constituted a challenge for the celebratory nationalists of the corporatist Vargas regime, who in the 1930s and 1940s encouraged governmental action in what was recognized by then as the most important game in the country, Bocketti uncovers both the changes implemented by the state in professional football and the continuing restrictions that had effects on the sport, helping us to critically reflect not only on the game but much more broadly on long-lasting social exclusions in Brazilian society.
[...]the author shows that despite the professionalization and encouragement of nonwhite, working-class players to participate in the game that took place over the sport's first 50 years in the country, and the emergence of the appealing and recurrent image of the jogo bonito (said to be inherently Brazilian), nothing minimizes the underlying and enduring control that the economic, cultural, and political elites exercised in determining both how football was to be practiced and the discourse about its practice and significance.
Chapter 2 explores the practices of the game in its early years and the regulations that supported them, with special attention to restrictions on participation pertaining race, class, and gender in major urban centers.