摘要：This paper discusses the learning of a practice very popular in Brazil: soccer. Made from ethnographic research (in Belo Horizonte / BR) in dialogue with the anthropology of learning, the study unveiled elements that involve learning / participation in this sport: the contexts of production and modes of participation, power relations/learning among novice and veteran, the changes in the forms of participation, the constitution of identities, football trials as learning contexts. The centrality/density of learning constituted in trials (repeated exercises of the practitioners with the ball) allowed to put such practices as focus. In this article, these practices were put into two groups: trials “solo” (when a practitioner engages in the production of football moves with the ball) and the essays “guided” (when more than one practitioner is involved in producing movements football).
