O futebol em Juiz de Fora: uma perspectiva através da imprensa (1904-1914)

Abstract

Concerns about the body have a prominent place in the contemporary world. Currently, bodily practices are part of everyday life for most of the population for many reasons: health, aesthetic, social, playfulness, among others. Gyms, swimming, sports clubs, facilities for street walking and analytical exercises, soccer fields and blocks present in schools are examples of spaces that are now common in the lives of Brazilian cities. We operate with the idea that the interval between the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century was a crucial period in the historical process of emergence and establishment of corporal practices in Brazilian lands. The modernization of many of our cities is a typical movement of these years and keep direct relationships with the identification of bodily practices as habits to be learned and practiced. This paper analyzes the process of development of football in Juiz de Fora, a city of Minas Zona da Mata, in the period between 1904 and 1914. Do not attempt to establish a historical overview of sport practiced in the mining town. We seek to abstract from our analyzes of journalistic sources present in the time frame adopted, focusing on the two most prominent publications of the time, the Jornal do Commercio and Pharol. As based on the observed relationship between football / press established on the lawns of Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, major urban centers, we try to abstract some comments about the news published about the sport and this newspaper juizforanos. In these, we seek to identify the relationship between these vehicles and the football played in Juiz de Fora, notes elaborated upon going from shy about confrontation between the newly founded local associations even more elaborate reports. Sought to establish these two work fronts: one focused on the statistical analysis of notes and other targeted published for a study on the main agents responsible for practicing and emanate from a local sports athletes hitherto unknown to most of the population. We start from the precept that, as occurred in the capital of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, the press had role in establishing and popularizing the sport of soccer ball in Juiz de Fora.