BATISTA NETO, M. A. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2189732222705936; BATISTA NETO, Marco Antônio da Silva.
Resumo:
The objective of this dissertation is to discuss how football players and clubs were
professionalized and what their experiences and social relations with the leaders and
between them in the city of Campina Grande - PB (1960-1975). In 1960, the two main
teams of the city of Campina Grande, Campinense Clube e Treze, debated the
professionalism of the teams, that is, the athletes would now be professionals, would
live of the sport, considered a serious leisure. This debate led to a series of changes
in the clubs and players. After all, professionalization gave rise to a new group of
workers, who would follow disciplinary norms, such as schedule, hours, and a formal
contract. On the other hand, the two clubs began to grow and to gain regional
projection, breaking the hegemony of the teams of the capital paraibana. Theoretically,
we work with the experience category of the social historian Edward P. Thompson.
Methodologically, with the Carlo Ginzburg indoctrination paradigm. Regarding the
sources we tried to make a dialogue between the oral reports and the archives of Diário
da Borborema, a newspaper that accompanied the soccer world during the studied
period.