“Come on... show them that black people's feet are also white”: racism in Brazilian football

Abstract

This article addresses, from the world of football, a social problem that still taints Brazilian society: racism. Through a review of the Social History of football in Brazil, we sought to demonstrate how, despite the undeniable protagonism of blackness in this sport, since the beginning, black players have had to live with and face racial prejudices and various forms of exclusion that stigmatize football. black population in Brazilian society. Having as a theoretical framework interpreters and concepts enshrined in Brazilian Social Thought, the scope of this work consisted of demonstrating the ambiguities of the black presence in Brazilian football, that is, how throughout our History the great black idols of our ludopedic art were and, in a certain way, therefore, they are still victims of this social plague in Brazil.