Football players formation: an anthropological analysis of networks of football relationships in São Paulo

• Grant number: 09/17748-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2010
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Heitor Frúgoli Junior
• Grantee: Enrico Spaggiari
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research proposed here aims at investigating the process of formation of young players in Sao Paulo through monitoring of social networks linked to the football phenomenon, whose starting points the performance and projects a FIFA Agent and a amateur club, both designed in Guaianases, the East Side neighborhood of São Paulo. Plot this network will uncover several aspects that permeate the process of formation of future players. I intend therefore to investigate actors and practices that are in a position of invisibility when viewed only by institutional prisms, for example, the Brazilian sports regulations, known as Lei Pelé.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SPAGGIARI, Enrico. Family plays ball: constitutions of young footballers in São Paulo amateur spaces. 2014. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.