Sociological Research on Várzea Football in the Community São Gonçalo Beira Rio in Cuiabá/MT

Abstract

The text presents results of a survey on the floodplain football in Cuiabá / MT. The goal of the research is to study the floodplain football as cultural mediator and social relations in the Community São Gonçalo Beira Rio in Cuiabá/MT. It is also intended: a) to present and analyze the strategies of founding amateur football teams in the São Gonçalo Beira Rio Community; b) describe and understand the organizational aspects of floodplain football in the researched community; c) analyze the forms/manifestations of relations, conflicts, clashes and contradictions between the football teams of that community. What role would varzean football play in mediating local differences, what ways of doing their practice interact and modify space and relationships? The Life History was the method used, having as data collection technique semi-structured interviews, recorded during field research. The várzea football plays cultural mediation role in the research community, being a vehicle for social interaction, producer of approaches and social conflicts, cultural and political. Deepened further when confronted us with intense community participation around the várzea football field, watching - for example - that life in and São Gonçalo Beira Rio community, as we have seen, earned another rhythm on match days, and the routine of the home routine was broken and became other routines that the football field demanded from the residents.