O futebol como ferramenta política em regimes ditatoriais: estudos de caso sobre a atuação da “Democracia Corinthiana” e da “Barra Brava Garra Blanca” na luta pelo restabelecimento de direitos civis

Abstract

The following final paper’s goal is to analyze the relation between soccer (as expression by civil society) and military dictatorships in Latin America. To do so, the paper approaches this relation by analyzing popular movements derived from soccer, such as the “Democracia Corinthiana” and manifestations by the “barra brava Garra Blanca” during the Brazilian and Chilean dictatorships, respectively. The paper aims to analyze the use of soccer as a means to a political end within military dictatorships, comprehending the roles of each soccer related expression, in order to determine the contributions of both cases in the struggle for reestablishing a democratic regime. There are four chapters to this paper talking about, respectively, the theoretical productions regarding the role of soccer in politics; the presence of the military within Corinthians, the Brazilian club, the advent of and expressions of the “Democracia Corinthiana”; the military junta presence within Colo-Colo, and Chilean soccer as a whole, the birth of the “Garra Blanca” and their social manifestations; the converging and diverging points in regards to both cases; the implications of both expressions in the struggle to reestablishing civil rights