“Festa, alegria e futebol”: o governo Ernani Sátyro e a construção dos estádios “O Amigão” e “O Almeidão” (1975).

Abstract

During the 1970s, one of the policies engendered by the military and business block that ran the Brazil at the time, invested in the construction of stadiums. The stadiums built in 1975, in Paraiba ( "The Buddy" and "The Almeidão) were part of this policy focused on football as political hegemony. In this sense, the objective of this paper is to discuss the possibility of historical conditions that allowed the construction of these sports venues. Therefore, politics and football take the field in this work. Thus, the surveyed newspapers (Jornal da Paraiba, O Norte, Correio da Paraíba, Diário da Borborema and A União) and the shorthand translations of the Legislative Assembly, give rise to problematizations anchored from a cultural Marxist perspective, given that questions the ways in which the dominant power using cultural elements to build a hegemony. The theoretical basis of this work is based on authors like Raymond Williams and Thompson and the concept of hegemony and theater of power, as well as Pierre Nora and Michael Pollak in relation to the concept of memory. With this, you can see how the govemor of Paraíba at the time, Emani Sátyro, was directly involved in the implementation of the project of construction of stadiums, using the undertaken policy that decade, as well as football, as a way to produce a political legitimacy, that pervaded not only his image but also the civil-military regime in force in Brazil.