Justiça desportiva: o Estado Novo entra em campo (1941 1945)

• Autor(a) principal: Soares, Jorge Miguel Acosta
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12915
• topic: Futebol; Disciplina; Justiça Desportiva; Direito Penal; Estado Novo; Football; Soccer; Discipline; Sports Justice; Criminal Law; Estado Novo; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The article‟s main focus is to analyze football‟s regulatory process during the Estado Novo, between 1942 and 1945, aimed at conforming the sport to the official ideology. Football icons didn‟t fit to the traditional Vargas‟s model which defined man as a disciplined, law-abiding member of the Nation. Sports offered resistance to the project. Facing the inability to effectively control insubordination during the matches, the sports system resorted to the implementation of a legal system that brought into the sport Criminal Law‟s main ideologies and basic structural principles. According to the government, international rules were not enough to contain violence and indiscipline inside the football field. For the sport‟s leaders, supporters of the regime, the football player poor, ignorant and illiterate, and the criminal alike, would only understand the language of punishment. The 1945‟s Disciplinary Code, based on oppressive norms similar to the ones in the Penal Code, was imbued with the notion that a punitive strategy was necessary and sufficient necessary to correct the players‟ instincts, which, according to its ideologists, were almost criminal; and sufficient to suit football to government models