Os jovens da jovem: a questão geracional em uma torcida organizada de futebol.

Abstract

The article discusses some practices of groups of supporters such as “Torcida Jovem” of Botafogo-PB sports team. We analyzed how the fans are organized based on generational boundaries, between young people and adults/old people inside and outside the Almeidão Stadium. We seek to analyze the supporters based on their generational, racial and economic diversity and also in their areas of activity and practices, sometimes visible, sometimes not so much. From a glance and from an ethnographic point of view - with fieldwork carried out between May 2017 and August 2018 -, on organized fans and different ways of cheering, we discuss how fan practices instigate reflections on existing processes of fluidity and rigidity of generational boundary lines in our society. The focus of our article is the practice of what we will call “practice of the coming and going”, carried out by the organized fans and characterized by the harmony and beauty of the chants and body movements, as well as by the intimidation that they want to provoke in the opposing fans. We intend to demonstrate how those fans who perform the practice are the protagonists of a typically youthful dynamic, delimiting boundaries with their elders, against processes in which generational boundaries are increasingly fluid, mixed and inaccurate.