Categorias de base: uma análise da formação e profissionalização dos jogadores de futebol formados nos clubes de Pelotas/RS.

Abstract

This dissertation, linked to the theme football, addressed the process of formation of players in five clubs from the city of Pelotas - RS. The study aimed to map and describe the proposals offered by the youth academies of these clubs, and identifies and analyzes the merits, also its turnovers, schooling, and trends of professionalization and also the retraining conversion of these rookie young players. The methodology used was ethnography. In addition to it, the instruments are used similarly in netnography (virtual ethnography). Field journals, semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, image resources, virtual artifacts analysis were some of the instruments used in the study. The conclusion of the study is that the professional clubs of the city require further planning and investment in the structure and management of their youth academies. The absence of these factors stimulates the trade of young players between different clubs, within and outside the city, and it directs the clubs to do a provisory "architecture” of the teams. It was also found among the surveyed players that there is a significant schooling difference like truancy and lag between them. There is a significant amount of young players formed on the city clubs in professional football (16% of the sample), if compared to other contexts studied, which reinforces the city's argument in being a state pole in formation of young players. Despite this notoriousness, there is a consensus between the interlocutors about the need of a reconfiguration in the formative proposals of the clubs for the youth academies, and especially for the professionals. Also appears to be necessary to create state interference mechanisms in this process, mechanisms that encourage compliance with laws that minimally will make safe the future of these young people.