Literature invades the penalty area (the chronicle during football world cups)

Abstract

This study is directed to the reading of the texts of writers and columnists that, since the nineties, have collaborated to the main newspapers of the Rio-São Paulo axis (O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, O Globo, and Jornal do Brasil) when covering World Cups. It demonstrates how these “celebrities” acquired unique importance within the Brazilian sports press and, consequently, how their texts have become a vehicle for subjective and fabulous - literary - manifestations, in only one word. In an environment so favorable to imaginary and emotional manifestations as football, this journalism has also become a particular form of literary fiction, by means of the chronicles that have filled the sports pages of the Brazilian press all these years