Esthetic monopoly and configurational diversity in Brazilian soccer

Abstract

This article has as objective to criticize the thematic monopoly exerted by professional soccer. To make this argument clearer there will be presented four configurational models around which the soccer diversity is better understood and viewed: the professional soccer (spectacle or high profit), the bricolage soccer (improvisation and informal soccer, etc.), the communitarian soccer (amateur, corporative, etc.) and the school soccer (institutional, instructed, etc.). The final part of the text is directed to the “communitarian soccer”, and with the purpose to give academic visibility to one of the segments hidden by the hegemonic narrative, but revealed as a great interest to the social sciences and, I believe, to the Physical Education.