Arthur Friedenreich (1892–1969): a Brazilian biography

Curi, Martin

doi:10.1080/14660970.2013.854540

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“…His life history became anecdotal because of the book. He had to straighten his hair and apply powder in his face to hide his origins and be able to play for the upper class teams of the city49 .…”

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The railway and the ball, the spread of football in São Paulo State

2020

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This article presents an exploratory analysis of the expansion of the railway network and the practice of football in São Paulo state (Brazil). An isolated region of Brazil experienced an economic boom in the middle of the nineteenth century due to the expansion of the coffee production. This transformed the region from an underdeveloped province into the most populous and richest state in Brazil, which resulted in the rapid expansion of the railway network. Designed initially to take the coffee to the coast, and transport workers and industrialized goods, the railway connected the small cities to the larger population centers, bringing new trends and fashions from abroad. Football would also spread alongside the railway network. The people responsible for its construction and administration were also associated with the creation of the first football clubs in the state, presenting this new practice to the local elites and urban dwellers. This article focuses on the foundation of the first football clubs in the most important cities of São Paulo state, analyzing the impact that the expansion of the railway played in the popularization of football, especially how in the majority of the cases the first football clubs were founded by railway personnel.

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Neymar: Sport Celebrity and Performative Cultural Politics

Andrews¹,

Lopes²,

Jackson³

2015

A Companion to Celebrity

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‘The beautiful game’? The FIFA World Cup and English perceptions of Brazil and Argentina, 1958-1986

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Holt

2019

Contemporary British History

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How can we account for the sharply differing perceptions and impact of Argentinian and Brazilian football in England in the third quarter of the twentieth century? Was this simply the result of television, or were historical forces also at play, ranging from Britain's legacy of 'informal empire' to deeply ingrained and racialized perceptions of Argentina as 'European' and Brazil as racially exotic? It was media coverage of the FIFA World Cup from 1958 which first drew South American football into a more mainstream position in English popular culture. Argentina came to be demonised in England as defensive, brutal and unsporting whereas 'tropical-modern' Brazil was perceived as fair-minded, beautiful and instinctive. The World Cups in 1958 and 1962 established these stereotypes, accentuated by the great Brazilian team in Mexico in 1970. Most significantly from a historical perspective, an ailing Brazil retained its position in English public affection whilst Argentina continued to be stigmatised in the 1970s, despite returning to its earlier blend of individual brilliance and attacking verve. These national constructions were created by persistent (mis)representations, a combination of media manipulation, racialized cultural assumptions and lingering post-imperial conflict, articulated notably in the Falklands War. Sporting preferences were both real and imagined, formed directly through media accounts of the World Cup and indirectly in the wider interplay of national stereotypes and historical contingency.

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Arthur Friedenreich (1892–1969): a Brazilian biography

Cited by 3 publications

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The railway and the ball, the spread of football in São Paulo State

The railway and the ball, the spread of football in São Paulo State

Neymar: Sport Celebrity and Performative Cultural Politics

‘The beautiful game’? The FIFA World Cup and English perceptions of Brazil and Argentina, 1958-1986

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