As práticas esportivas na orla de Vitória-ES : um estudo entre praticantes de futevôlei e futebol

Abstract

From within two groups of sports practices at Vitória’s beachfront - one of foot volleyball and another of soccer - this paper aims to discuss this sport which is so present in our daily lives. The groups were observed through an ethnographic approach in order to understand the characteristics of the surveyed practices and also to analyze them based on the studies that dealt with the subject and /or reached similar paths to this investigation. Based on the fields and interviews’ description notebooks, it was possible to demonstrate how these groups are organized, their strategy maintenance over time and the relationships between the sport practiced by them and the sport in its institutionalized form. These observations served as the basis to answer the main question of the study: Is it possible to think of sport as something with definite characteristics? It was identified that, if we assume the definitions exposed in some studies, many of the groups’ characteristics from this research will be excluded. Thus it confirms the considerations proposed by other studies that present the sporting universe with increasingly diverse features and assorted possibilities of singular appropriations.