Abstract
During the first Getúlio Vargas administration (1930–1945), professional sport was established in Brazil. In a regime deeply marked by its pro-labour policies, one may at first think that professionalism was supported by the national government. However, that was not the case in Brazil. The struggle between professionals and amateurs created a schism in Brazilian sports that would last from 1933 to 1937 and that would still reverberate in the governmental intervention in sports in 1941. This article aims to analyse the relationship of Brazilian football ruling elites and the populist government of Getúlio Vargas in order to understand not only the top-down mobilization of sports by the authoritarian government of Vargas, but also the bottom-up initiatives that led the agents of the football elites to press for their own agendas.
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