An approach to emotions in sports teams

Abstract

This work analyze the coexistence of sports teams of disciplines that involve contact with the rival team in their practice, based on the empirical analysis from 30 interviews with coaches and athletes of teams from the Community of Madrid of the soccer, basketball and rugby disciplines. In a feminist approach from the sociology of sport, the forms of organization of sports teams are pointed out, making visible the strict hierarchies and normalized disciplinary systems, influencing certain exacerbated practices that can be justified in the context. From here, an analysis is carried out through the special sensitivities of sport that affects the study of emotions and affective dynamics in these sports teams, reflecting on their mission as support for systems that perpetuate fragility that will give rise to certain vulnerabilities in space, especially against women.