Sentidos e práticas do imaginário social do futebol em um projeto social: o caso da Vila Olímpica da Mangueira

Abstract

The present thesis discusses the meanings and practices of soccer, inserted in a social project, the Vila Olímpica da Mangueira, located in Rio de Janeiro, chosen for being one of the main socio-sports projects developed in public policies in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Initially, it seeks to understand the social imaginary that sustains the professional soccer player, as a category socially constructed and sustained by the heroic imaginary as the first movement to approach the senses that serve as a model for the modality and that end up interfering in the ways of doing and thinking sports initiation and socio-sports works. In the field of research, document analyzes were carried out, participant observation of the routine of the institution and survey of the speeches of its managers and teachers through semi-structured interviews. It seeks to identify what promises VOM can deliver on what it promises to its target audience and what its methodological priorities are with infant teams (ages eight to thirteen). Ethnographic and qualitative research seeks to describe and unveil everyday meanings of appropriation and use of soccer, in order to apprehend and understand actions through their respective imaginaries. In sum, this research intends to point to soccer as an instrument for analyzing social dynamics and connecting the sporting and social context, through a theoretical construction aiming at a possible contribution of practical and social effect to professionals working with sports initiation, especially in public policies, by problematizing the apparent majority approach of the praxis of professional soccer of income, more and more precociously and even in a social project and its respective unfoldings