Da sociedade esportiva moderna no Brasil à constituição de um sportsman do sertão norte-mineiro

Abstract

Based on the understanding of its own and diverse historical composition of the Brazilian sport scenario, this piece aims to comprehend the making of a sportsman who would act in the city of Montes Claros, a backcountry region that has not encompassed the modernity aspects in the same pace as the big cities have, but it has also not been oblivious to them. As for methodological strategy, pieces by memoir writers from Montes Claros and Rio de Janeiro journals were used as sources, mainly the ones from the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. After his return from Rio de Janeiro, where he had experienced a sporting outburst society, Ari de Oliveira became a sportsman, due to his engagement as an amateur athlete and as a sport manager leading the teams back in Montes Claros, bringing the sport of the big cities to the countryside, practicing and promoting football.