Uma poética do futebol nas memórias de Tostão

Abstract

This work proposes a reading of the work Tempos vividos, sonhados e perdidos: um olhar sobre o futebol (2016), by former player, former doctor and journalist Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade, known by the nickname “Tostão”, with the aim of analyzing and understand his conception ofsport based on relationships with the field of language, art and literature. Initially, we focus on the hybrid constitution of this book, which combines an autobiographical record, following the author's personal life, with a memorialistic and reflective record on the history of Brazilian and world football in the last 70 years. Next, we explore the poetic vision of football elaborated by Tostão based on a set of dualities with a philosophical background, with special attention to the duality between “football-prose” and “football-poetry”, initially formulated by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Finally, we dedicate ourselves to thinking about how this poetic vision of sport unfolds into reflections on football as a representation of the identity and dilemmas of Brazilian society. During this journey, we highlight the importance of ethics in the author's thinking, as a possible solution to the dualities and dilemmasthat structure his vision of football, art and life itself.