Abstract
The work deals with the construction of identity of Racing Club de Montevideo’s fans, exploring its main composing issues and interconnections. The narratives of the study subjects are considered, as well as other structures that underlie the collective senses and practices, especially on official match days –here conceived as a ritual– when violence is constituted as a practice that generates specific bonds and meaning. Fans make use of a repertoire of symbols and practices that intentionally communicate an image to others, who are in a position of antagonists within a particular scenario of Uruguayan football, dominated by the disproportionate allegiance to the so-called big teams compared to that of the small ones. It is concluded that the territory, the history, and the style of football are important factors in this communication which, aesthetically, symbolically and discursively, narrates the dichotomy between them and the others.
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