Abstract
The objective of this essay is to understand the configuration of football in Brazilian society by relating three authors, Roberto DaMatta, Gilberto Freyre and Jürgen Habermas. Jürgen Habermas and his Theory of Communicative Action will be the foundation of the discussions with the other two authors. The first addresses the issue of football and the dramatisation of society, and the second approaches the dichotomy between Apollonian and Dionysian. As a provocation, the essay seeks to discuss and problematise the relationship between identity, power and reification as burning issues for sociocultural studies of Physical Education and sport.
Keywords:
Football; Brazilianness; Habermas; Culture.