THE USE OF FOOTBALL AS A CONTROL STRATEGY

Abstract

The case of football is emblematic. It is necessary to understand how the Brazilian seized the sport, as if taking it from the more affluent layers that introduced it in the country. Even with attempts to curb the practice, the appropriation has taken place. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Brazilian labor movement was noisy. Despite the government's repressive action, the nascent Brazilian industrial bourgeoisie, worried about the proletarian trade union mobilizations, would have made use of less harsh mechanisms such as supporting and financing the sport that favored workers' graces: the soccer.