The Babel of football: intercultural athletes and the ultra fans

Authors

  • José Paulo Fiorenzano Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i163p149-174

Keywords:

utras, global football, racism, violence, African athletes

Abstract

The crisis concerning the lack of credibility among referees, scenes of urban guerrilla warfare in the stadiums, financial parameters for managing the teams that have fallen by the wayside, together with the so-called "foreign invasion", mostly represented by African athletes, were inter-woven into an explosive formula for the calcio of the dawn of the Third Millennium. Using a theoretical perspective informed by the framework of sociological and anthropological references for the sport, the text discusses this historical crossroads and underscores interrelated questions of the racist imagination of the extreme right "ultras" (exacerbated by the advancement of global football), and the symbolic dexterity of black players, reflected in their dual ability to extricate themselves from negative representations and articulate new social meanings for the game

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Published

2010-12-30

How to Cite

FIORENZANO, José Paulo. The Babel of football: intercultural athletes and the ultra fans . Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 163, p. 149–174, 2010. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i163p149-174. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/19174.. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.