O jornalismo e o poder político e social do futebol

Abstract

The objective of this work is to understand how journalism portrayed events that connected the political, social and football history of Brazil. We know that this is the most popular sport in the world and that it has a strong influence on all social strata, which justifies the theme of this work. We chose to contextualize world events that connect sport to political-economic issues, and analyze events that relate the 1970 Brazilian team to national politics, as well as episodes that link Rio teams to social issues. The methodology adopted was the analysis of cases by illustration (MACHADO; PALACIOS, 2007), based on publications from Revista Veja and newspapers in the State of Rio de Janeiro. As the main result of this work, we highlight that the connection between sport, politics and social issues is not an identifiable and analyzable reality in journalistic reports and journalists play a crucial role in providing a critical perspective on how sporting events are interconnected with the political and social context. wider.