Sports Coaching Review
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Legitimizing the coaching profession in the dispute for symbolic capital in football in Brazil Christiano Streb Ricci, Jader Fabris Moreira, Fernando Eidi Yoshimura & Maria Clara Soares Pontoglio To cite this article: Christiano Streb Ricci, Jader Fabris Moreira, Fernando Eidi Yoshimura & Maria Clara Soares Pontoglio (2016): Legitimizing the coaching profession in the dispute for symbolic capital in football in Brazil, Sports Coaching Review, DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2016.1201361 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2016.1201361
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Legitimizing the coaching profession in the dispute for symbolic capital in football in Brazil Christiano Streb Ricci, Jader Fabris Moreira, Fernando Eidi Yoshimura and Maria Clara Soares Pontoglio
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Ribeirão Preto School of Philosophy, Science and Literatura (FFCLRP), University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Social fields are spaces based on disputes over power and capital, with particular modes of organisation, domination and symbolic tensions (Bourdieu, 1983, 2004; Marques, 2015). Football represents a particular social field, within which a dispute exists between the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and the Federal Council on Physical Education (CONFEF) in relation to the coaching profession. As the most practised and consumed sport in Brazil, football has a great deal of symbolic value in the country. As such, the CBF counts on the support of important sectors of society and organises itself in such a way as to impede the creation of laws, norms and rulings that permit the mobility of social and deliberative positions. In this way, the CONFEF/CREF (CREF = Regional Council of Physical Education) encounters barriers in the subfield (Bourdieu, 2011; Guterman, 2010). It is evident, for example, that a struggle exists within the subfield for the legally attributed rights of football coaching as a profession. One area in which these tensions are initially played out is with regards to the overarching legislation governing each organisation. In a regulation approved by Congress and published in the D.O.[1] on 2 September 1998, “The purpose of the CONFEF is to defend society, ensuring the quality of professional services offered in the arena of physical activities, sports and similar areas, as well as ensuring harmony between entities in the system CONFEF/”CREF” (CONFEF, 2015). Regarding the field and professional activity of the physical education professional, Articles 10 and 11 of the Statute read: The physical education professional intervenes in proposals of prevention, promotion, protection, health maintenance and rehabilitation, cultural formation, motor rehabilitation, physical-sports performance, leisure, and management of enterprises related to physical, recreational and sporting activities; and the exercise of the profession of physical education, across the nation, whether in the private or the public arena, and the denomination of physical education professional is limited to those enrolled in the
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CONFEF and registered with the CREF, those who hold the professional identification card issued by the CREF (Regional Council on Physical Education), which is authorized to enable the exercise of the profession.
When the CREF began to oversee coaches at the Carioca and Sergipe Championships in 2012, it demanded they be registered with the council. Also, in that same year, a federal ruling was made (CBF, 2015) which allowed football coaches in specific situations to ignore the requirement by the CONFEF/CREF system to hold a professional identification card. The federal law number 8,650 from 20 April 1993 stated in the third article: The exercise of the profession of professional football coach will be safeguarded preferentially for:
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I – those holding a diploma from schools of physical education or analogous entities, recognized by law. II – those professionals who, by the date on which this law takes effect, have demonstrably exercised the post or function of football coach for the period of not less than six months, either as an employee or self-employeed, in clubs or association affiliated to leagues or federations, throughout the nation.
And, also in article 27 of federal law number 6,354/76:
Allex- professional football athletes who have exercised the profession for at least three consecutive years or five alternating years will be considered, for employment purposes, as football monitors.
This dispute took shape with law number 9,696 from 1September 1998:
It is the duty of the physical education professional to coordinate, plan, programme, supervise, revitalize, direct, organize, evaluate and execute tasks, programmes, plans and projects, as well as provide services such as auditing, consulting and advising, carry out specialized trainings, participate in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams and elaborate technical, scientific and pedagogical reports in all areas of physical activity and sports.
At the moment, the CBF – maintained by laws preceding the creation of the CONFEF, protected by the political system and bolstered by the habitus of the Brazilian football tradition – are winning this dispute (Bourdieu, 2004). In this way, the CBF avoids attacks on the CREF/CONFEF system with rulings and injunctions that permit coaches who are not registered in the CREF/CONFEF system to maintain the right to work. The CONFEF, in order to give itself legitimacy, needs to awaken the interests of representatives in relevant positions within the subfield of football, just as has happened in other fields, for example, politics, to gain strength and try to overcome the established doxa (Bourdieu, 2011). References Bourdieu, P. (1983). Questões de sociologia [Sociology in question]. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Marco Zero. Bourdieu, P. (2004). Os usos sociais da ciência: Por uma sociologia clínica do campo científico [The social uses of Science: By a clinical sociology of scientific field]. São Paulo: Ed. UNESP.
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