Undesirable experiences: Some cases of sexual harassment in football

Abstract

This work describes the memories of two professional athletes and two former professional athletes about their experiences with cases of sexual harassment in the base categories of Brazilian football clubs. We used oral history – a research method that employs interviews with subjects who had experiences that can somehow contribute to analyses of a particular object of study. Therefore, we understand that orality addresses the singularity of each narrative, since the stories are told from the point of view of those who experienced them. However, the recurrence of cases concerning a previously unacknowledged social problem reiterates that these cases were already happening and sometimes went unrecognized by the media and the authorities responsible for curbing this type of criminal action.