Aristocratic ethos and associations: Amateur soccer and sports competence in São Paulo (1920-1930)

Authors

  • Diana Mendes Machado da Silva Universidade de São Paulo Departamento de História Pós-graduação em História Social Doutoranda

Abstract

Several urban and sociocultural shifts took place and marked the period 1920- 1930, changing social places, customs and standards of conduct. Football would not be immune to such changes. Two experiences at first glance antagonistic reveal how this instability marked the establishment of sports in the city. Based on documents from Anhanguera Athletic Association and Paulistano Athletic Club – representatives, respectively, of the popular clubs situated on the floodplains of the city and the elite clubs – this article compares moments of the trajectories of the two associations. It outlines the differences in the way each one of them assimilated football and the similarities regarding the criteria they used to refuse modern organization processes such as sports competence. The criteria for this rejection were, however, based on quite different traditions: family associations and mutual help in the case of popular clubs and the aristocratic ethos in the elite clubs. Nevertheless, both forms contributed to the establishment of the idea of amateurism, which has been substantial for the practices and the image of football in São Paulo.

Keywords: amateurism, associations, aristocratic ethos, Associação Atlética Anhanguera, Clube Athletico Paulistano.

Author Biography

Diana Mendes Machado da Silva, Universidade de São Paulo Departamento de História Pós-graduação em História Social Doutoranda

Sou mestre em História Social com a pesquisa A Associação Atlética Anhanguera e o futebol de várzea na cidade de São Paulo (1928-1958) defendida no Departamento de História da Universidade de São Paulo.

Sou doutoranda pelo mesmo departamento com a pesquisa "A formação da cultura do futebol em São Paulo na primeira metade do século XX".

Sou membro do Núcleo de Apoio à Pesquisa sobre o Futebol e Modalidades Lúdicas (LUDENS) da USP, do Grupo Interdisciplinar de Estudos sobre o Futebol (GIEF) e do Grupo de Literatura e Memória do Futebol (MEMOFUT). Participei do laboratório “Migrations et espaces urbains”, do Centre de Recherches sur le Brésil Contemporain, na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, em Paris, entre fevereiro e junho 2012.

 

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Published

2015-10-15

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 3 (2015): September/December

Section

Dossiê: Futebol, Raça e Nação no Brasil

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