出版社：Sport – Laboratório de História do Esporte (PPGHC / IFCS / UFRJ)
摘要：This study analyzes forms of political manifestations related to soccer (football), observed in Brazil in the course of the 1970’s years. We observed, in the context of soccer, the outbreak of a dispute between conservative power and the left forces in the Brazilian political scene. In this period, different subjects, linked to opposition groups, also used the communicative space created around the sport in order to externalize their political ideals. Thus, the sport served the interests of both the state and the Brazilian leftists. These actions generated the involvement of soccer players, artists, and the media in general. In this context, the sport press figured as the main mediator of both the symbolic battles engaged amid soccer players, coaches, managers, and fans, and the official acts and actions of the State
