Futebol, violência e a imprensa esportiva escrita na cidade de São Paulo (1990 2000)

Abstract

This work has the aims to develop some understanding on the violence within soccer, as well as the influence of the written sports press regarding such violence. The intention here is to examine soccer and the media-related questions as intense and condensed phenomena inside the societies, specifically in the Brazilian society. Soccer, since its origin in Brazil, came out as being conflicting and entrancing, since, after its arrival, an impressive adhesion by all Brazilian society occurred. Such fact was followed by a recently created sports press, which delivered almost exclusive attention to it. It is pointed, in this dissertation, how the press dealt with soccer at different moments, not only following the sportive facts, but also the events of violence related to them. Such events had had diverse reasons, always related to its respective historical moments. The research carried through in this work focused on the divulgation of the events of violence in soccer made by the press in the decade of 1990, which held impressive technological expansion and, consequently, a speeding-up of the spreading of information. Regarding this informational context, diverse techniques were developed by the press; such techniques aimed to build parameters in order to mould the comprehension of the receivers of the information - in the scope of the present work, the supporter and reader. Such actions had generated reactions which reflected in the daily routine of the world of soccer