Webjornalismo esportivo e o combate à corrupção no futebol

Abstract

Currently, the theme of sporty web journalism and the fight against corruption in soccer has a historical, legal, political, social, economic, in marketing and sportive relevance in the world context, as it portrays the various nuances of the universe of the most popular sport on the planet and until then rarely addressed in the academic ambit of the legal sciences. Therefore, it is necessary to historically understand the role of the graphic press, its evolution and its economic impact, thus inserted in a cultural and symbolic context of the means of communication. Likewise, focusing on the field of sport and the characteristics of soccer, with an emphasis on the main attributes of journalism from the 19th to the 21st century. Furthermore, the journalistic activity as an important economic vector, through its specialized editorials, mainly the sports editorial. Aiming to report the emblematic facts of corruption in soccer at the international, national and regional levels. Sporty web journalism is the main focus of this scientific investigation and its social, political, economic and cultural function with regard to denouncing crimes of corruption and money laundering in soccer. The objectives of this unprecedented study are to identify the main events and language of sporty web journalism, through journalistic reporting of crimes that occurred in the context of soccer, in addition to evaluating the transnationalization and soccer’s corruption combat in Brazil and in several countries, as the example of Fifagate Operation, triggered in 2015 in Zurich (Switzerland), through investigations by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). The methodology consists in a literature search, such as the authors Bloch (2002), Chade (2015) and Hatzidakis (2019). Also, it broadly covers secondary literature and documentary research, through a methodological procedure by the consultation of books, dissertations, theses, scientific articles, news, reports and television series specialized in this sporting universe. However, although the treatment of journalistic sources is commonly classified as secondary in nature, in this case web journalism itself is the subject of analysis. Therefore, it is worth treating them as a source of information that underlies the interpretations handled here and inserted in this context, they are primary sources, considering the base subject of the research. Remember also, the forecast of document treatment to monuments, that is, an academic research that casts new views on the reading and conclusions around the journalistic matter, thus understood in the period from 2015 to 2021, specifically by primary sources, the accounts of those involved in cases of corruption and money laundering in the sporting context. Finally, this theme proposes an innovative discussion about the reality of sporty web journalism and the fight against corruption in soccer, essentially in Latin America, through the series El Presidente, providing a differential in the research that portrays the History of Law and which has the core reflection on Sporty Law and Economic Criminal Law, from the perspective of a critical analysis of the fight against corruption, through the mechanisms of Sportive Compliance for the prevention, punishment of offenses in sports and the awareness of individuals in Brazil and in the world for a new social construction in the 21st century.