PERTENCIMENTO CLUBÍSTICO E PERTENCIMENTO TORCEDOR: MATERIALIDADE E GÊNERO NUMA TORCIDA ORGANIZADA DE FUTEBOL

Abstract

The proposal is to update the debate on organized fans, deploying new analytical and ethnographic approaches. The notion of club belonging elucidates fan dynamics by drawing on the agonistic classifications fostered in and by the competitive system of male professional soccer rivalries. Now, we take cheering from another point of view, as a manifestation inherent to demands that are more internal and circumscribed to the fans themselves, and we will name this analytical displacement as "fan belonging". Fan belonging will be exemplified in the materialized practices of organized male and female fans, exposing more contemporary forms of segmentarity of sociability, such as the gender implications, discussed here based on ethnographies centered on Gaviões da Fiel, an organized fan group that also projects itself in the official Carnival of the city of São Paulo. This analytical update helps to investigate the movement of methodological estrangement by problematizing the term "club" as an extension of the masculine sphere of playing, while at the same time making it possible to diffract gender issues within cheering, releasing other forms of belonging tied to the generic masculinizing category "supporter".