Soccer in Farias Brito/CE: The Memory of its Protagonists

Abstract

Experienced in professional and semi-professional clubs, or as a leisure activity, soccer is the most popular sport in the world. In Farias Brito/CE, its practice takes place from amateur championships on dirt fields or in municipal grass stadiums, to the streets and in public squares as a form of popular game/play. Its practice has its own particularities, meanings and meanings given by the subjects involved in the practice. However, it has high-performance sport as a reference, demonstrating that, even though it has its own meanings and meanings, ultimately, its practice is socially determined by the social model of the sport of soccer, linked to high performance. The general objective of this research is to understand the elements that make the practice of soccer in the municipality socially specific to the high-performance sport. The Study is characterized as qualitative, field research, in which data is provided from semi-structured interviews. We can conclude that the practice of soccer in the municipality has particularities, but is not opposed to high-performance soccer.