Sport for All in Brazil in the 1970s: The Institutionalisation of a Government Policy for Mass Sport

Abstract

This article analyses the mass sport policy in Brazil established during the government regime of the Military Dictatorship. To conduct this research, journals, newspapers and official documents produced between the 1970s and 1980s were used. Conclusively, the article indicates that the Sport for All policy in Brazil, created in the context of the emergence of the leisure field in the country, contributed to the consolidation of the mass sports policy, which was fundamentally essential for the insertion of sport as a social right in the 1988 constitution.