Abstract
The year of 1968 was also marked by unrest and riots in the stands of Maracanã stadium. In a period of poor performance of their teams, groups of young football fans threw themselves into the fight against directors of big clubs in Rio, through protests, demonstrations and even marches outside Rio de Janeiro’s stadium. Inspired by the international slogan Youth Power, these newly formed groups adopted similarly a critical stand on the traditional model of supporters, the “Charangas” (small music bands), originated in the 1940s, characterized by the prevalence of a single charismatic leader, recognized by the Club and by the majority of its fans. During the 1970s, the dissident Young Supporters Groups are established on the sports scene and make possible the emergence of a multitude of small and medium-sized associations, giving the supporting activity associative and cultural meanings, recreational and social, until then non-existent in a period of civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985). By gathering these events derived from the serial reading of journalistic narratives, obtained in sports newspapers archives, this article aims to show how a particular type of association, based on club idolatry, took shape on a national and international scale in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and assumed historical and cultural particularities in professional football in Rio de Janeiro. We sought to demonstrate how this phenomenon from the second half of the 20th century met the new demands for participation and differentiation of urban populations, especially its young protagonists, in an increasingly competitive, massified and commodified professional field.
Highlights
The year of 1968 was marked by unrest and riots in the stands of Maracanã stadium
Em um período de fraco desempenho de suas equipes, grupos de jovens torcedores jogaram-se na luta contra diretores de grandes clubes do Rio, através de protestos, manifestações e até marchas fora do estádio do Rio de Janeiro
Reuniendo estos eventos derivados de la lectura en serie de narrativas periodísticas de archivos de revistas deportivas, este artículo pretende mostrar cómo un tipo particular de asociación, basada en la idolatría de clubes, tomó forma a escala nacional e internacional en la década de 1960. 1970 y 1980, y asumió particularidades históricas y culturales en el fútbol profesional en Río de Janeiro
Summary
By serial reading of the Jornal dos Sports, the succession of Mário Filho’s only son to his father’s commercial project in the newspapermade possible to follow the invention of a series of new events by Mário Júlio He followed his father editorial tradition, he had to adapt to economic contingencies and imposed historical and political circumstances from the late 1960s. Emerged in the newspaper’s pages the monthly section called O Sol, one of the youth symbols of the 1968 generation, found in the verses of the tropicalist composer Caetano Veloso This interactive process with the reader and this broader scope that sports provide to perception, following a ginzburgian trail (GINZBURG, 1990), of a connection between the newspaper message and the appearance of supporters’ groups.
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