Futebol, nação e representações: a importância do estilo "futebol-arte" na construção da identidade nacional

Abstract

In this article, we will highlight the importance of soccer in the construction of Brazil's national identity in the 1930s. Our alleged style of play, "art soccer", was built in dense narratives and surrounded by ideological disputes of different social currents in the 1920s and 1930s waging a debate to define a new ideology and what would be the national identity. We will present here the context that allowed the approach of miscegenation as something positive defining an important moment of the racial issue in Brazil, and to intensely associate such ideology with soccer, especially during the World Cup of 1938. Among the main authors and ideas discussed in this article are respectively Gilberto Freyre and his thinking about national identity and Serge Moscovici and his contribution to the study of social representation.