Brazilian Football Research Articles

Reflections on Brazilian Football: A Review and Critique of Janet Lever's "Soccer Madness"

Reflections on Brazilian Football: A Review and Critique of Janet Lever's "Soccer Madness"

Isotope scanning to diagnose osteomyelitis

<h3>Background/aim</h3> Football players frequently face the occurrence of non-contact musculoskeletal injuries. The purpose of the study was to verify whether the evaluation of combined risk factors could produce a score system to determine the probability of injury in football players during the Brazilian football season. <h3>Methods</h3> Sixty-two male professional soccer players recruited from&nbsp;the first and second division soccer teams, with ages between 18 and 36 years. Functional performance evaluations were carried out at the beginning of the preseason which included strength and jumping tests, history of injuries and characteristics of athletes. <h3>Results and conclusions</h3> The results were grouped and a score/monogram was constructed.

Body capital in Brazilian football end American Basketball

There is a relationship between athlete biotype and sports activity in which the body plays. There is also a relationship between the dominant culture, the body and its capital, the body is properly built to play its role in certain particular culture valued by sport. Moreover, exist a huge influence of sports in children’s motivation for education; however, this influence can be negative if children are not using sports for academic purpose, but only a false dream to be a professional player. This paper aims to discuss the importance of capital in the body according to the prevailing culture in Brazil and the USA. To do so, compare features of two sports, basketball and football in the USA in Brazil, according to the cultural importance of sport and its practitioners. Therefore characterizes the importance of blacks, their bodily features, their typical culture in American basketball, as well as body building in Brazilian football within a company dedicated to capital that these sports represent these cultures.

Scapegoating in Baseball

Scapegoating in Baseball