O Lugar do Amadorismo em Tempos de Profissionalismo no Futebol da Cidade de Belo Horizonte (Décadas de 1930 e 1940)

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the place occupied by the amateur regime in soccer in the city of Belo Horizonte, in the 1930s and 1940s. To this end, an analysis was made of thirty-six reports from six newspapers that circulated during the proposed period. In summary, it can be considered that the years studied proved to be difficult for the amateur clubs in their reorganization in the midst of professionalized soccer. There was a loss of social value, which translated into little institutional support. The professional side, as soon as it was established, became central, and the nearly 200 amateur clubs in the capital, spread throughout the city's districts, had little or no visibility