Liga de Veteranos do Rio Grande: formas de lazer e singularidades futebolísticas

Abstract

In this work we treat football not as a spectacle form, but as leisure. Although this is played by a large population, mainly in Brazil, does not have the same visibility of the professional football in the media. The focus of analysis was the veterans football, through the championship organized by the Liga de Veteranos do Rio Grande (LVRG) in the year 2010 in its 15th edition. Our objectives were: to understand the organization and functioning of the League, describe and analyze football s events championship in 2010 and study the practices that constitute this veterans football on and off the field. This, through a methodology inspired both ethnography and oral history, composed of 43 field diaries, 460 images, official documents (acts, statutes, regulations) and news of the city's only daily newspaper, the Journal Agora. In addition, we conducted two interviews and the collection of oral testimony and the record notes of informal conversations with members of the League. We observed that participants take ownership of football with different goals, which they require dedication that even outside space-time formal games promoted by the Liga de Veteranos. We identified the LVRG while leisure environment that promotes the meeting of its members on different occasions, promoting sociability. We also had noted that this league presented some singularities in their football, particularly in the distribution of specific functions, such as coaching, and promote the organization and discipline football