Das Amazônias (Dec 2022)
"Entre bola e bala": Ditadura militar e a conquista da copa de 1970
Abstract
This article discusses the winning of the 1970 World Cup by the Brazilian team and how the military dictatorship and especially President Medici took advantage of this triumph to mask the entire scenario of repression that the country was experiencing. Aspects of the president's participation will be analyzed before, during and after the winningof the cup, investigating how the victory of the Brazilian team in Mexico was used by Médici to legitimize and glorify his government and the dictatorship in the country, manipulating the population through nationalist chants and representations of the titled “savior of the nation”. Therefore, this article was justified as a qualitative research that seeks to elucidate the issue of soccer as mass manipulation, emphasizing President Medici's effort to link the victory of the Brazilian team to his government, controlling the press through publications that linked his image and mandate to the Brazilian team Three-time Chanpionship, in order to create a “Brazilian” nationalist figure and guarantee the support of the population. The results of this article were obtained through a partial, descriptive case study with a qualitative, documentary and bibliographic nature, analyzing the works of Marcos Guterman (2004) and (2006), Ricardo Martins (1999), Ernesto Marczal (2013), Jônatas Santos (2017), among others.
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