Produção Nacional
"The People's Joy" Vanishes: Considerations on the Death of a Soccer Player
1999; Wiley; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/jlat.1999.4.2.78
ISSN1548-7180
Autores Tópico(s)Physical Education and Sports Studies
ResumoEthnography of a FuneralIn his last period of his life, Garrincha was living in a house that the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) had rented for him five years earlier on Rua dos Estampadores, a neighborhood originally built for the employees of Companhia Progresso Industrial -a textile mill in Bangu, a working-class suburb of Rio de Janeiro.The fact that Garrincha died in a housing development built for the workers of a textile mill went unnoticed by the press, which covered in depth the somewhat bizarre events that followed the death of the former soccer star.Curiously enough, Garrincha died in a place quite similar to the one where he was born and lived until he became a famous sportsman: the Pau Grande housing development for workers built by América Fabril, a textile mill in a rural setting in the environs of Rio.Since Garrincha could not return to Pau Grande, it seems that Bangu was congenial enough to serve him as a refuge for his twilight years.Death would take him back to Pau Grande.This apparent coincidence points to the decisive impact of the relations that are part and parcel of social configurations -such as some workers' neighborhoods -on Garrincha's entire life, as the present article will show.From January 16, 1983, a Sunday, to the following Wednesday Garrincha drank nonstop at the local bars.He was 49 years old.He had started out as a professional soccer player 30 years earlier, had reached the height of his fame
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