O TRABALHO PARA O ATLETA PROFISSIONAL DE FUTEBOL: UMA PERSPECTIVA PSICODINÂMICA.

Abstract

Soccer is the greatest social phenomenon in Brazil, in that it is admired and played by many people, permeated for peculiar ideologies and fleeting waves, a reason that took us to research its workers, the players. So, this paper has seeked to learn how the professional athletes of soccer experience their work for the Team X? What are the feelings that they attribute to their work as professional athletes for Team X? The labor reported experiences were systematized and analyzed, having as substrate three macro-categories that group the established categories a priori from the Psychodynamic approach in the paper, which are: Category 1 Professional Journey and Identity; Category 2 Work Management Work conditions, Work Organization and Work Relations; and Category 3 Subjective Mobilization Work Objectives, Experiences of Pleasure and Suffering in the work and Facing Strategies. So that it was possible, we decided to do a study of case of descriptive and exploratory character, in a soccer team, using for technique of collecting data, semi-structured interview and documental analyses, we interviewed 21 players, we used as inclusive criteria: being athlete of professional soccer, male sex, hired by the X Team and taking part in the daily activities like training and preparing. The interview guide was a leading axe having questions that encompassed the three macro categories. The discursive analysis was used to treat the generated data from the interview. Results showed that the history of these players have been permeated by many fallacious discourses as their representation the society holds over their profession, they live in a context very competitive, this characteristic of their Sport insert them in an alienating logic, peculiar of the system instrumental logic of production, in which subordination, denial and self-overcoming consist in conditions sine qua nom for staying in the market. The work for the athletes still consist in recognizing source, pleasure and social accession, which provides them with pleasurable experiences. The athletes in the execution of their work provide happiness for the supporters, making them to forget the daily maladies, this is important, because it justifies in many aspects the everyday work, besides contributing in the forge of the resignification of suffering inherent to that one. Reinforced by the media work, the athletes are considered idols, examples and myths. Like this, it was possible to understand the meaning of the work for the Professional soccer players, from three aspects: personal, social accession and promising career; the professional aspects, for they are considered idols, promoters of entertainment, subjects without culture that get rich and finally the popularity aspects, for playing soccer is a different profession, better paid, although, the media sells a twisted image, which does not represent the reality lived by them. But, even if the reality be contradictory, the pleasure of being a professional athlete for these professional overcome the suffering.