Echoes of the Tragedy
The Sport Memoir and the Representation of the 1950 World Cup
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12219684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernardo Borges Buarque De Hollanda, Bernardo Buarque De Hollanda (0000-0001-7781-4684, Fundação Getulio Vargas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1287-1302 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523367.2014.886564 |
| OpenAlex | W1970219066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article delves into the meaning of the 1950 World Cup, held in Brazil after a 12-year hiatus due to the Second World War and two decades after a South American country (Uruguay) had hosted the tournament. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the role of sport memoirs in the cementing of a collective imagination on the Brazilian National Team's defeat in 1950. Anchored on a triple dimension – organisational, tactical and technical – the analysis explores the way in which the loss of the title to the Uruguayan team was experienced by a number of actors – among them players, management personnel and fans – and set in writing by many generations of sports writers. Through the diachronic choice of works published by journalists (which include memoirs, news stories, biographies and autobiographies), the objective is to point to the congealing of a rhetoric made up of negative remarks associated to the football event, such as ‘trauma’, ‘drama’, ‘tragedy’ and even ‘catastrophe’. Contemporary historical perspective, which questions the deep-rooted opposition between memory and history will be turned so as to support the consideration of whether the former can in fact direct, or even shape, the latter's features.Keywords:: World Cupssport narrativeshistorymemorynational identity Notes 1. Most players from the Brazilian National Team of the 1950 World Cup stemmed from Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama, whose coach since 1944, Flávio Costa, also took that post with the national team. In the case of the Uruguayan National Team, most players came from the roster of Montevidéu's Peñarol club, whose colours were black and gold. 2.CitationLopes, “The People's Joy Vanishes.” 3.CitationPerdigão, Anatomia de uma derrota, 225. 4.Esporte Ilustrado, July 20, 1950. 5. A few pictures of the tournament with a voice-over of said journalist can be accessed at http://www.blogdoims.com.br/ims/a-final-da-copa-de-1950-e-outras-imagens-de-futebol/. 6.CitationWisnik, Veneno remédio, 246. 7. Apud CitationMoura, O Rio corre para o Maracanã, p. 82. 8.CitationHelal, Soares and Lovisolo, Futebol, jornalismo. 9.CitationVogel, “O momento feliz.”10.CitationFranzini, “Da expectativa.”11. ‘While Brazil had routed Sweden (7 to 1) and Spain (6 to 1), Uruguay tied the Spanish (2 to 2) and only beat the Swedes (3 to 2) with a goal five minutes before the end of regulation’. CitationPerdigão, Anatomia de uma derrota, 247.12. Apud CitationPerdigão, Anatomia de uma derrota, 145.13. Ibid., 226, 227.14. Ibid., 244.15.CitationMoraes Neto, Dossiê 50, 90.16. Ibid., 81.17. Ibid., 102.18. Ibid., 84.19. Jô Soares is the nephew of former Brazilian National Basketball Team coach, Togo Renan Soares, known by the nickname ‘Kanela’.20.CitationMuylaert, Barbosa, 179.21. Ibid., 177.22. Ibid., Preface.23. Ibid., 19.24. Ibid., 113, 117.25. Ibid., 44.26. Ibid., 167.27.CitationHelal, Soares and Lovisolo, Futebol, jornalismo, 95.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBernardo Borges Buarque de HollandaBernardo Buarque de Hollanda has a bachelor's degree (1996) and is licensed (1998) in Social Sciences by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has both a master's degree (2003) and a PhD (2008) in Social History of Culture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas and a researcher at the Center for Research and Documentation of Brazilian Contemporary History (CPDOC/FGV). He has a post-doctorate from the Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris-2009), with a fellowship from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He is the editor of Revista Esporte & Sociedade [Sport & Society Revue] and of the Visão de Campo [View from the pitch] collection (7 Letras). He is experienced in the areas of history, anthropology and sociology. His main topics of research are: literary history and modernism; Brazilian culture – critique and interpretation; folk culture and national identity; social thought and intellectuals in Brazil; social history of football and organised soccer supporting groups
Art · Art history · China · Drama · Football · Literature · Media studies · Memoir · National identity · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · World War II · History · Law · Physical Education and Sports Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |