“Guerreiras de chuteiras” na luta pelo reconhecimento: relatos acerca do preconceito no futebol feminino brasileiro

Abstract

This article aims to describe and analyze reports about the motivations and diffi culties faced by female soccer players in Brazil. To that end, we interviewed four players from an amateur soccer club in the city of Curitiba-PR. All players at some point in their careers played for the Brazilian national team. After reviewing the information, we found that prejudice -whether related to gender or to lack of incentive -is recurrent in the interviewees speech, as well as the adjective "warrior" appears at the end of this paper as a innate feature of women who seek the soccer practice and place their professional opportunity in it.

Brazilian women elite futsal players’ career development: diversified experiences and late sport specialization

“…By one side, this scenario can have contributed to the interviewed players' sport successful development as athletes, but it can be interpreted as a problematic issue, a worrying consequence of the lack of futsal competitions offered to girls before the thirteen years old 9 , or the low amount of girls that play this sport systematically and competitively on youth 11 . This scenario reinforces the perspective that futsal is a man preserved sport in Brazil 8,11,12,20 , and that is necessary the improvement of opportunities and incentives for girls to play it on youth 9,16 .…”

“…Gender segregation in sport exerts an important influence on women sports career development from an early age 18,19 . Studies on women participation in futsal and football in Brazil 8,9,11,12,16,20 describe a number of issues and barriers faced by athletes. Among the main ones are: a) the lack of support from family during the beginning of sports career; b) the prejudice and discredit about the involvement of women in such sports; c) the scarce offer of practice opportunities to girls who wish to practice futsal as a sports activity.…”

The women inclusion on rugby: perceptions of Brazilian national team players

“…Women boxing athletes also reported poor visibility of this sport on media, both men and women, but with a marked disadvantage for the later. In addition, it was found from these interviewed athletes that the legitimacy of their achievements comes from media coverage, and also from the insertion and legitimation of the contents of women struggles related to body culture, discourse echoed by other studies 24,26 .…”

“…The strangeness and prejudice about women participation in sport was another theme that emerged from interviews. According to the athletes, society still strange a woman practicing any kind of sport, which is reinforced by several other studies 23,24,21 . Most of the interviewees claim that they still have to conquer social spaces.…”

“…They believe that women sport is marginalized when compared to men, because a woman is not culturally expected to be an athlete. Other studies in Brazil 12,24 show that women sport seems to have less commercial appeal and often its disclosure is more related to the athletes' aesthetic aspects than to their athletic achievements, what could make the beauty as secondary. This perspective echoed in the discourse of some participants of this study.…”