Sports photojournalism and the defeat of Brazil for Germany in the 2014 World Cup: images of crying and tear on the covers of four Brazilian newspapers

• Autor(a) principal: MARQUES, José Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: CARLOS, Neide Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Âncora - Revista Latino-americana de Jornalismo
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ancora/article/view/35847
• topic: Fotojornalismo; Jornais brasileiros; Jornalismo de Esportes; Fotografia; Copa do Mundo.; Photojournalism; Brazilian newspapers; Sports Journalism; Photography; World Cup.

Football is a sport of great audience appeal in Brazil. Many are the forms of representation and discursive formations produced on this sport by the media channels. Among these means, print newspapers elaborate their strategies in order to raise awareness of their audience. Seeking to offer a critical analysis of the relationship between sport and the media, we propose to analyze the covers of four national newspapers (A Gazeta, Correio do Estado, Jornal de Brasília and Correio Braziliense), editions of July 9, 2014, which Coverage of the game Brazil 1 x 7 Germany for the World Cup FIFA 2014. Taking the photographic document as the central point of our analysis, we detected the recurrence of cry and tear images to portray the repercussions of the game that was considered the defeat of defeats, according to the mediatic discourse itself.