Futebol, Identidade Nacional e Construções Midiáticas: o futebol-arte na imprensa nacional quando vence e quando perde

Abstract

The thesis makes a survey of newspaper accounts during the World Cup 1970, 1982, 1990 and 1994 seeking to define how the Brazilian team was treated by the media in victory and defeat. Our main issue is to investigate how the idea of football art is addressed by the newspapers at different times. We hypothesized that the football art would exercise our Brazilianness and the media narrative tends to exalt the team in case of victory and "understand" it in case of defeat. But when we do not practice "our real style" the narrative would be more critical when the team is defeated and would contest the victory, treating it as illegitimate, precisely because it would escape our supposed roots. Our theoretical framework is based on the ideas of Gilberto Freyre (1938) on what would be football-art and its importance in the construction of what would be "national", started in the 1930s. We would also follow the research of Soares and Lovisolo (2003) about playing styles, the work of Helal (2001) to indicate the role of football in building a national identity and how these representations emerge from in a latent manner during the course of World Cups