摘要：This article presents the life projects of male adolescents in the first year of high school of a public state school in São Carlos, SP, Brazil, their relationships and roles assigned to school and to football. The answers to a questionnaire enabled the subject classification into two focal groups which were conducted towards the understanding of the research goals. The results were divided into four categories: "meaning of being young," "meaning of school in young people life", "meaning of soccer in young people life" and "young people, life projects, beliefs and desires about the future". Participants pointed the school as their future basis, legitimating the fulfillment of the regular cycle aiming to be "someone in life". In addition, football meant: socialization, passion, pleasure, dream, and it could be seen as personal, social and financial appreciation, although it triggered the difficulty of such desire to be sustainable over their own belief
关键词：Projects of life;Soccer;School;Proyecto de vida;Fútbol;Escuela;Projeto de vida;Futebol;Escola
