O bar, o estádio e as mulheres: uma etnografia do Catanga Futebol Clube

Abstract

The present work sought to approach football as a social phenomenon, facing it as part of a broader social process, through a continuum that involves a dynamic mobilized by those who are involved with it in the stadiums, in the streets, in the bars, in carnival, considering it from rituals linked to everyday life. For this project, we carried out an ethnography with players, directors and fans of Catanga Futebol Clube, an amateur soccer team from Passa Quatro, in the southern region of Minas Gerais. The work of meaning in their soccer fields illuminates how, when we returned to Catanga Clube, we also launched specific relationships and dynamics that unfolded there for the neighborhood in which they lived. In this sense, it was possible to understand how this activity actively participated in a dynamic that involved the study operations, in which these subjects were always attentive to actions and events, under the aspects of an agonistic sociability that reinforced a late conflict in the contours of orientations events guide aspects of these characters in social narratives. Thus, as representatives of a marginal locality, the football team became a source of respectability and an opportunity to demonstrate the value of this region, through which the neighborhood was re-signified through the conflicts of the fans.