As representações do futsal para mulheres atletas universitárias

Abstract

In Brazil, both soccer and futsal are seen as the country's sporting identity, but women do not have the same visibility as the male sport. Although futsal athletes make great achievements and have relevant stories, both in their clubs and in sports media, there are few studies developed on this theme. Most of the time, existing social research seeks only to present differences between male and female sport, or to investigate physical and / or physiological aspects of the female sport. For this reason, the research aimed to identify and interpret the representations of futsal for futsal athletes of the Programa Esporte at UFAL, seeking to understand a little more about the universe of women's futsal, inside and outside the courts, reported by those who actually live sport and goes through all the difficulties related to the practice of the sport. The study is classified as being exploratory and descriptive in nature, using a qualitative method. The studied group was composed of 18 university-athletes participating in the Sport Program at UFAL, aged between 19 and 28 years. For data analysis, the free software IRAMUTEQ was used. From the analysis and interpretation of the interviews we can conclude that the practice of futsal assumes a great importance in the lives of athletes. The love for the sport makes the practitioners face the obstacles and seek inspiration to continue in the sport even with all the existing inequality and prejudice. With the results found, we wish to contribute to the breaking of the paradigm, characteristic of social machismo, that futsal and / or football are strictly modalities of the male universe.