“FOOTBALL IS A PASSIONATE MANIFESTATION. IT'S LIKE POLITICS”: THE BRAZILIAN TEAM IN THE SPORTS CHRONICLES OF ROBERTO DRUMMOND IN THE 1978 AND 1982 WORLD CUPS
Chronicles; Roberto Drummond; New Political History; Football
The study of football and literature is already common in research in the field of Social Sciences, and it is no different in History. Thus, through sports chronicles written by Roberto Drummond, during the 1978 and 1982 World Cups in Jornal Estado de Minas, we seek to relate these fields of study, understanding the conics produced by the author as part of a democratic political culture within the scope of national sports chronicle. We use the approach of the New Political History, in which the "politician" extrapolates the field of institutional power, also encompassing a series of practices and social representations, as is the case of football spectacle. In the first chapter, the chronicles were analyzed as sources of historical research, and the contextualization of Drummond’s intellectual biography was made. The second chapter is dedicated to the context of the Argentine dictatorship, host of the 1978 World Cup, and to Drummond's chronicles about the tournament. Finally, the third chapter presents the analysis of the chronicles of the 1982 World Cup. The comparison of sources shows that the author gives continuity to some recurring themes addressed by him in the previous World Cup. In summary, the set of analyzes suggests that the chronicles produced by Drummond reveal his popular style, full of colloquialities, with the idea that the Brazilian football team would represent the entire Brazilian people, through talent, creativity and genius that, in to a certain extent, it feeds the tradition left by chroniclers such as Mário Filho and Nelson Rodrigues.