Corpos em jogo: o futebol como reflexo da sociedade

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect on the fact that, in 2024, football is still an environment surrounded by prejudices that end up alienating various social classes from the sporting environment. The stands, the main element of interaction between fans, are a completely heteronormative environment and the culture formed around this ends up using violence of various types as a way of legitimizing masculinities. However, the characters who are constantly excluded do not remain passive in the face of all this. Organized groups of fans, the well-known organized fan groups, began to exist not only in a traditional way, but also as a way of defending that an LGBTQIAPN+ person, a woman, a black person, and anyone who is not straight, can also be a fan and feel part of this environment. This paper, with research presented through a book-report, a genre of journalism, is dedicated to presenting the story of some of these characters of resistance through their activism and explaining how prejudice affects society through football. The writing is done through investigation based on reports in interviews, verification and reading of the historiography about football and the concepts that encompass each of the problematized prejudices.