Training of women athletes: An instagram analysis of players from the Brazilian women’s national football team in times of pandemic

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the ways athletes from Brazilian Women’s National Football Team narrate their training sessions on Instagram during the period of social distancing imposed by COVID-19. Photographs, videos, and texts posted in profiles of 18 athletes were captured from March to July 2020. Based on Instagram posts, we verified that this production of self-narratives is based on the agency of numerous elements that associate and become part of the training scenarios. In addition, the analysis showed that it is through inventiveness and the circulation of knowledge that athletes lead and enable, even if remotely, the training essential to the role of professional players.