A arquibancada enquanto projeto: movimentos de torcida e suas mediações na nova economia do futebol (2006-2021)

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s, Brazilian football is going through deep changes in its management techniques. Raised more and more to the condition of consumption goods, the social actors engaged in this social activity have been witnessing a gradualrestriction on the popular uses and appropriations of the most popular sport in thecountry. In view of this context, this work proposes to examine this process from theperspective of collective actors that I call football fans movements. They are a diverseset of agents who engage in a militant engagement around football, articulatinglanguages that make it up as an integral part of a popular culture. These languages are heterogeneous, and express different ways - with their approximations anddistances - of relating to the football clubs and the sporting spectacle. Using the nativecategories of "pista" and "arquibancada", I will try to analyze how they condense different collective projects within the scope of cheering movements. Based on theanalysis of the speeches of actors linked to the National Association of Organized Fans (ANATORG) and the Vasco da Gama’s organized supporters “Guerreiros doAlmirante” (GDA), I will give special attention to the “arquibancada” category,highlighting its interfaces with politics and social movements.