Football and Oral History in Brazil

This book examines the popularity of football in Latin America and the importance of sound archives in a country in which orality is the basis of important social relations.

Raphael Rajão Ribeiro is a researcher at FULIA/UFMG - Center for studies on football, language and arts, and a professor at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE). Qualifications include a PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Goods at the School of Social Sciences at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/CPDOC), and a master's in History from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda is an associate professor at the School of Social Sciences of the Fundação Getulio Vargas and a researcher at the Center for Research and Documentation of Brazilian Contemporary History (FGV CPDOC). He is also a historian, with a PhD in Social History of Culture from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and has held a CNPq research productivity scholarship since 2013. His main topics of research include literary history and modernism, social thought and intellectuals in Brazil, the social history of football and organised football supporting groups.

1. Football and oral history in Brazil: an introduction Raphael Rajão and Bernardo Buarque 2. Three interviews and a destiny: the story of Havelange or the story of FIFA Lívia Gonçalves and Sérgio Giglio 3. The political elites of football - a methodological inquiry in Oral History Luiz Burlamaqui and Deivid Ferreira 4. The unexpected in an archive: interferences in a football memory collection Bernardo Buarque and Raphael Rajão 5. Voices from the Football Museum: memories of Brazilian players participating at the FIFA World Cup Football editions (1954-1982) André Capraro 6. Problematising the experiences and memories of migrant players Luiz Carlos Ribeiro 7. Stories from pioneers: Esporte Clube Radar and the resumption of women's football post-ban Caroline Almeida 8. Oral History, other stories, and other supporters: narratives of the supporter group Coligay Luiza dos Anjos 9. Territories of cheering: an analysis of the testimonies of the founders and leaders of the organized fan clubs in São Paulo Vitor Canale 10. Discourse analysis as an instrument to scientifically investigate the history of football activism in contemporary Brazil: an example of "(anti)fascism" Felipe Lopes 11. An integrative review of academic papers to explore the connections between football and oral history in Brazil Marina Dantas