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This page intentionally left blank First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 41 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PL ©Paulo Fontes, Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda and the Contributors, 2014 All rights reserved. Printed in the USA Distributed in the United States, Canada and Latin America by Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. The right of Paulo Fontes, Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda and the Contributors to be identified as the authors of this publication is asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. A Cataloguing-in-Publication data record for this book is available from the British Library. 978-1-84904-417-2paperback This book is printed using paper from registered sustainable and managed sources. www.hurstpublishers.com In memoriam of Carlos Eduardo Sarmento THE NEW BRAZIL King’s Brazil Institute Series Editors: Michael Hall and Anthony Pereira In recent decades, Brazil has become a more economically and politically stable country. As its wealth has increased, and it has become the sixth largest economy in the world, it has awakened the interest of outsiders. But Brazil is still not well understood. Its enviable image is one of a laid-back mixture of natural beauty—beaches, mighty rivers, rain forests, vast plains—and exuberant multiracial humanity, expressing itself in football, music, Carnival, and sex. This image attracts and seduces, but it also misleads. Brazil is more complicated than that. This series is dedicated to exploring the Brazil behind the superficial images that dominate coverage of the country from the outside. It focuses on some of the country’s major twenty-first century challenges. Fifty years ago, Brazil was an agrarian country, dominated by plantation agriculture, in which 70 per cent of the population lived in the countryside. Since then it has industrialised and urbanised. Large-scale internal migration and demographic growth, the latter pushing the population to over 200 million, have reshaped the country. The country has endured a military dictatorship, seen mass movements demanding a variety of civil, political, and economic rights, and undergone complicated and contested constitutional, legal, and political reforms. Many of its contemporary challenges stem from its explosive growth, and the struggle to adapt economic, social, and political institutions to the new realities of the country. Brazil in the twenty-first century is a country of contradictions, conflict, change, and growing global influence. This series seeks to shed light on some of the most important contemporary issues in Brazil, and especially those that have played a big part in the recent transformation of the country. It will highlight Brazil’s history, politics, and society, and examine conflicts that have made the country what it is today. One objective of the series is to bring some of the best recent Brazilian scholarship to an English-speaking public. Brazilian universities have grown and professionalised in recent years, without a corresponding increase in works in English by Brazilian scholars. Contents Acknowledgements ix About the Authors xi Preface Richard Giulianotti xiii The Beautiful Game in the ‘Country of Football’: An Introduction Paulo Fontes and Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda 1 1. The Early Days of Football in Brazil: British Influence and Factory Clubs in São Paulo Fatima Martin Rodrigues Ferreira Antunes 17 2. Malandros, ‘Honourable Workers’ and the Professionalisation of Brazilian Football, 1930–1950 Gregory E. Jackson 41 3. Football in the Rio Grande Do Sul Coal Mines Marta Cioccari 67 4. Futebol De Várzea and the Working Class: Amateur Football Clubs in São Paulo, 1940s–1960s Paulo Fontes 87 5. The ‘People’s Joy’ Vanishes: Meditations on the Death of Garrincha José Sergio Leite Lopes 103 6. Football as a Profession: Origins, Social Mobility and the World of Work of Brazilian Footballers, 1950s–1980s Clément Astruc 129 7. Dictatorship, Re-Democratisation and Brazilian Football in the 1970s and 1980s José Paulo Florenzano 147 vii CONTENTS 8. Public Power, the Nation and Stadium Policy in Brazil: The Construction and Reconstruction of the Maracanã Stadium for the World Cups of 1950 and 2014 Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda 167 9. A World Cup for Whom? The Impact of the 2014 World Cup on Brazilian Football Stadiums and Cultures Christopher Gaffney 187 Notes 207 Bibliography 241 Index 257 viii Acknowledgements We would like to express our great appreciation to Professors Michael Hall and Anthony Pereira for their support and encouragement directed to the publication of this book. The generosity and professionalism of the Museu do Futebol in São Paulo—especially of the Content Director Daniela Alfonsi—was funda- mental to the identification of the illustrations. Finally, we want to give our special thanks to Oliver Marshall, whose herculean, patient and elegant work of revision of the translations, accompanied by accurate and insightful comments, were decisive for the publication of this work in such a short space of time. ix
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