{"id":250,"date":"2014-01-07T22:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/?p=250"},"modified":"2014-01-09T02:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T02:12:36","slug":"cole-sylvester-pcq-172014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/2014\/01\/07\/cole-sylvester-pcq-172014\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Football, Race, Ethnicity and National Identity in Brazil – by Cole Sylvester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cole PCQ 1\/7\/2014<\/h3>\n

An interesting idea that the article,\u00a0The Making of Brazilian Football<\/em>, brings up is the idea that soccer is a sport that can be learned and played by any social or economical class. \u00a0It is an easy game for young children to pick up and practice even if they come from a very poor background such as Ronaldo Lu\u00eds Naz\u00e1rio de Lima.<\/p>\n

“stocking balls served the purpose for the sandlot games hotly\u00a0disputed by barefoot players, with goalposts easily improvised\u00a0from any variety of possible materials”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Soccer became more than just a fun activity for many of the nation’s youth, especially because of the prospects of being drafted to more elite teams. \u00a0These elite teams were mainly sponsored by European factories with money to pay the players to play. \u00a0They also gave rival cities a chance to compete against each other without actually fighting. \u00a0Each team would try and out-play, out-support, and out-fund their rivals. \u00a0An environment like this was very conducive to training formidable Brazilian players who had strong national and regional pride for their team. \u00a0For them, soccer became a way of life rather than an interesting pastime.<\/p>\n

In his article, Gregg Boketti goes into detail about how soccer played an important part in bridging the cultural gap faced by Italian immigrants to Brazil. \u00a0He also talks about how soccer is an international language that brought together the multinational cultures who call\u00a0Sa\u02dco Paulo home. \u00a0The sport of soccer and its presence on the global stage through media has blurred the lines of nationalism and what it means to be a fan of a team.<\/p>\n

Questions:<\/h4>\n
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  • What is preventing other countries’ soccer leagues and players from becoming as successful as Brazil’s?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • If\u00a0Brazil did not have its diverse multicultural background during the infancy of its soccer years, would it be the international powerhouse it is today?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Cole PCQ 1\/7\/2014 An interesting idea that the article,\u00a0The Making of Brazilian Football, brings up is the idea that soccer is a sport that can be learned and played by any social or economical class. \u00a0It is an easy game for young children to pick up and practice even if they come from a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,46,19],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}