The construction of the fan ethos in the modern city: “a rainha dos sports, os sururus e a victoria que o sol não viu”- (1926-1930)

Abstract

The present article intended to elaborate a representation of the construction of the fan identity in the city of Belo Horizonte-MG, in the second half of the 1920s, a moment when the football scene changes from the loss of the protagonism of América-MG and the rise of the Clube Atlético Mineiro and Palestra Itália, which reconfigures the disputes and consequently the design of the ways of cheering, establishing a more precisely marked field of club membership in the city. In this sense, we sought as a privileged source of investigation the local newspapers, which described the daily sports / football in Belo Horizonte, reverberating the events chosen as more significant. From the periodic narrative it was possible to establish an overview of the fans and their more typified behaviors, linked to the logic of consumption and identity, illustrated by episodes such as fan contests, increased violence (and therefore the attempt to control the ways to cheer) and the opening of new and suitable spaces, the football stadiums.