INST 316 Soccer Madness ID o Mario Filho o Brazilian o Editor of Mundo Esportivo o Responsible for making carnival competitive o Made football matches carnivalesque o First person to encourage fans to turn the terrace into a spectacle o Maracana is named after him o Coined Fla Flu the match between Flamengo and Fluminense that had the supporters competition o O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro o Written by Mario Filho o Social history that in its days was considered one of the most original and significant works ever written in the country o Maracana o Brazilian government sought to build the Maracana for the 1950 FIFA World Cup o Built high expectations and hype for Brazil s win in the 1950 FIFA World Cup but Brazil lost against Uruguay o Maracanazo originated from this stadium s name referring to this tragic loss o Our Hiroshima o Refers to the Maracanazo o Nelson Rodriguez the playwright coined this phrase o Parallel to the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima this phrase illustrates how much of a national tragedy the loss to Urugray in the 1950 World Cup really is to Brazil o Barbosa the goalkeeper was blamed unfairly for this loss o CONMEBOL o La Bombonera o Millonarios o La Maquina o South American Football Confederation o Continental governing body of association football in South America o One of six continental confederations o It was created by the four participating associations in the 1916 Copa America o Built under Eduardo Sanchez Terrero and aided with a massive soft government loan o The Chocolate Box o A consequence of political patronage and of the growing network of interconnections between football and politics o A title River Plate had earned in 1931 when they began the professional era with a wild spending spree on players o First to benefit from the government s low key largesse o A title and a praise lauded by El Grafico s editor Borocoto in the 1941 game against o The title was fitting because according to Borocoto River Plate played like a Charcarita Juniors machine o River Plate o Juan Peron o Earned the title Millonairos for their wild spending spree on players o Earned the title La Maquina for their machine like playing style o Rose to power after the 1943 coup by dissident officers o Before as an unknown Colonel he was made Minister of Labour and unleashed a torrent of social and industrial reform o Immensely popular so popular that it worried senior officer corps and the government that he was imprisoned in October 1945 o Gave birth to Peronism an intoxicating blend of nationalism independence and modernization o Supported economic independence inclusion of people in the political process and domestically controlled industrialization o Became president in 1946 o Merged Argentine Olympic Committee and the Confederation of Argentine Sport and brought them under direct state control o Shamateurism o The practice of treating certain athletes as amateurs so that they will be eligible for amateur competition while subsidizing them with illegal payments or with excessive money o Vasco Da Gama was accused of Shamateurism by claiming their players as amateurs yet training them extensively in surreptitious camps Primordial Sentiments o Argues that our sentiments are with the groups into which we are born o Language custom religion race tribe ethnicity or locale o The excitement of soccer in Rio is based on these primordial loyalties o The resilience of these primordial sentiments is problematic in new and industrializing nations they are the basis for the cleavages and prejudices that inhibit unified action Bosman ruling o A 1995 European court of justice decision that dictated players within the EU can transfer freely within the EU on the grounds of freedom of movement for workers o EU players who transfer into another nation within the EU are no longer viewed as a foreign player o This decision assuaged the former foreign player quota on European teams and gave them more space to hire more players from outside of the EU started a rush for South American soccer players Jules Rimit o A French football administrator 3rd president of FIFA serving from 1921 to 1954 o The first FIFA World Cup of 1930 was held under the force of his initiative o The Jules Rimet Trophy was named in his honour o Brazil ended up winning the Jules Rimet Trophy in the World Cup of 1970 o The Medici coveted this victory by propagandizing along with the victory and attempted to modernize football after this victory granted soccer a greater importance in Brazil 1978 World Cup o Hosted and won by Argentina o The cup was questioned by participants because two years earlier a coup had installed a new military government into power o For Brazil Admiral Heleno Nunes became the president of the CBF He was previously the head of the government s political party ARENA In the 1978 World Cup the Brazilian qualifying games were turned into rallies for ARENA o Brazil soccer team was led by Claudio Coutinho who wanted to push a style of total football a scientific football and he discouraged individualistic players who often dribbled saying that it was a weakness Pele o Arguably the most famous Brazilian soccer player o Central to Brazil s 1958 and 1970 World Cups victories o His role seen as proof that black players could succeed and that they were essential to Brazil s success o Key for the global marketing strategy of Brazilian soccer in the Joao Havelange era o Pele as the poster boy of Brazilian soccer world wide Goooooooooooooooool o Classic catch phrase of ngel Fern ndez and later Andres Cantor and Luiz Mendes o This phrase was especially memorable in the 1950 World Cup where Urugray scored the winning goal Luiz Mendes said Goooool do Urugray several times each with a different intonation in shock and disbelief Growth pole theory Hyperurbanization o An urban theory of economic development that begins in a few cities poles which are dominated by large scale advanced capital intensive industry o The growth of these poles would spread development to the nation o Brazil concentrated on site selection through identifying existing metropolises o When the rate of growth increases more quickly than there are opportunities for o Causes labor absorption problems as before 1970 none of Brazil s twenty largest cities approached 30 of their labor forces in the industrial sector o Betterment of rural conditions would reduce the incentive of urban migration and thus reduce this phenomenon Dualistic theory of urbanization
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