A broken country, two big crowds undergo the consequences of devastating moves. This is the Brazilian political scenario in which Brasil em Jogo (2016), a work of Mapas e Hipertextos collective, is established. It appropriates the football match structure to question the art and politics ways of doing/thinking. This article discusses some aspects of Brasil em Jogo's creation process, addressing what triggered it-its bounds to events in Brazilian representative politics -, its development means -exploring theater and performance characteristics -and its reverberations in the relational act in the city of Florianópolis -SC.