Livro-reportagem: Campeonato brasileiro de 1987 – conflitos e tensões jornalísticas em relação à exclusividade do título do Sport Club do Recife

Abstract

Brazil’s 1987 Championship is considered one of the most controversial championships in the history of national football. The dispute stretched beyond the soccer field, and the legal confrontation between Sport Club do Recife and Clube de Regatas do Flamengo lasted until April 18, 2017, when the Federal Supreme Court decided to ratify the exclusivity of the title to the club from Pernambuco. Sport Club’s conquest was legally supported, and it counted on the seal of the Brazilian Football Confederation, but it had never got the recognition of the so-called ‘great press’. The choice of research subject was justified by the historical relevance and the topicality of the object, besides the scarcity of academic studies related to it on the journalistic field. The work aimed at analyzing the performance of some journalistic segments in relation to the coverage of that sporting event through the process discussion on the media monopolization and its resonances, evidencing marks of partiality and news manipulation. The theoretical foundation was based on the concepts of journalism, media manipulation, sports journalism, non-fiction book, legal aspects, ethics in journalism, and

interview techniques. The methodology employed in this analysis includes in- depth interviews applied to lawyers, club leaders, historians, journalists, jurists,

teachers, and soccer fans, as well as textual analysis on books, and newspapers such as Folha de S Paulo, Jornal do Brasil, O Estado de S Paulo and O Globo. The analysis was extended to the National Sports Magazine Placar and to the GloboEsporte.com site. As a final product of this academic work, it was developed a non-fiction book entitled Brasileirão 87: the great press disowns Sport’s title, that highlights some facts raised through rigorous research on the subject, which a considerable part of the journalistic segments was – and still is – keen to keep it out of reach of the public at large.