La « brésilianisation » du football professionnel portugais : une approche géographique

Abstract

The analysis of the migrations of the Brazilian soccer players aimed at the championship elite Portuguese (18 studied clubs) allows to accentuate the big historic periods of the movements of the players between Brazil and Portugal between 1955 and 2013. Besides, it allows to understand the spatiales interactions between the Portuguese clubs of reception and players' exporting Brazilian clubs and to study the place occupied by Portugal in the system of the transfers of the Brazilian players in Europe. This contribution shows the spatial distribution of the Brazilian players evolving in clubs Portuguese recruiters and makes possible the understanding of the position of Portugal in the European and international soccer system. So, the geographical approach of the transfers of the Brazilian soccer players invites, after all, to question us about the spatial dynamics, created and developed by the Portuguese clubs, and lived by the Brazilian players.

Keywords

• soccer players migration
• Portugal
• Brazilian players
• exporting clubs
• geography of the soccer