THE SOCCER’S ORGANIZED SUPPORTERS OF “TRIO DE FERRO” IN CITY OF SÃO PAULO

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Abstract

The aim of this work is to analise the impact of organized supporters of soccer in increased violence, especially in São Paulo-SP, Brazil, where fans of three of the most important and popular clubs in Latin America are spiced by a rivalry marked by balance in soccer results. This analysis is based on a sociological and anthropological literature on the subject, especially those productions that is set against the backdrop the Brazil, the theory of Norbert Elias, the Brazillian federal law number 10.671, of May 15, 2003 – popularly called Estatuto do Torcedor, the Brazillian federal law 12.299/10, the “Novo Estatuto do Torcedor”, and visits the headquarters of one of Organized Supporters in 2005 and at soccer games, sometimes as comum fan, sometimes in the company of organized supporters. Integrating field work and bilbiography was possible to detect a change in the structure of violence these supporters because, initially, the code of law, Estatuto do Torcedor, expanded surveillance in and around stadiums.