Os impactos da pandemia de Covid-19 em torcedores de futebol: um estudo sobre a recepção dos jogos sem público do Ceará Sporting Club

Abstract

It aims to investigate and understand the changes and adaptations in the way Ceará Sporting Club fans support their fans from the reception of the club's games via television broadcasts during the period of banning the presence of fans in stadiums during the most critical phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. . To this end, some concepts are used such as: reception, consumption and affective memory. It presents a brief contextualization about the history of the club, chosen for its relevance in the local football scene, as well as the time frame in which the new coronavirus pandemic occurs. It uses five virtual questionnaires and five individual face-to-face interviews with different Ceará fans. This is a case study, using qualitative research methods, as it analyzes the content of each of the interviews, with excerpts of the respective answers arranged in the body of the work. Finally, it concludes that the way of consuming Ceará games, as well as the act of supporting, were changed and adapted by the club's fans due to the Covid-19 pandemic, not affecting the emotional and affective bonds between them and the club.