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Audience in the Armando Nogueira Theater, at the Football Museum: first steps
Flavio de Campos, Leonardo Pereira, Antonio Jorge Soares, Arlei Sander Dano and Simoni Guedes, in the debate Society and Identities: different approaches
DaMatta in the inauguration class: football, society and societies
The inauguration class: audience from 17 states
As soon as Neil Armstrong touched, for the first time with his right foot, the sandy floor of the Moon, july 21st, 1969, he said one of the most famous quotes ever: "a small step for a man, a gian leap for mankind".
This event has no link with the 1st Symposium of Football Studies. Or almost none: the duality of the meaning of Armstrong's step is, in a certain sense, present in this event, last week, from may 10th to may 14th, at the Football Museum, at USP (University of São Paulo) and PUC-SP (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo ). Small-big steps.
This first Simposyum inaugurates a new moment for the studies of football in Brazil. Close to South Africa'10, and already in the countdown to the second World Cup in Brazil, the Symposium joined about 200 works, an expressive figure that perhaps will grow more and more, due to the coming events - but, above all, to the Symposium itself, and its pioneerism.
The inaugural class, by the antropologist Roberto DaMatta, in the Theater of the Faculty of History of FFLCH-USP (Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences), was followed by debates, coordinated sessions and individual speeches, with a lot of themes, from group of organized fans 'till football and body expressions, passing through football-art and the footballer career.
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There is, perhaps, another common point between Armstrong's pasito (present in the World Cups room, one of the main rooms of the Football Museum) and the Symposium: in the middle point of both you'll find feet, stepping the natural satellite, or kicking the ball, an artificial satellite that goes around, more and more, the Earth.
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