This work provides to physical education teachers a theoretical support on critical-discursive-semiotic analysis of newspaper cartoons about soccer in Florianópolis. This is a reading on the performance of Avaí Futebol Clube in the Brazilian Championship in 2009, from cartoons produced from May to December of that year by Zé Dassilva (Diário Catarinense), Mendes (Notícias do Dia) and Adorno (Hora de Santa Catarina). The analytical path takes into account a peculiar choice of cartoons arranged chronologically, which contrast by highlighting some phenomena and fundamental elements of the semiosic processes and narrative speeches of Lion's performance over the League, like metaphorization, metonymy and intertextuality.
Discursive-semiotic analysis; newspaper cartoons; Brazilian championship soccer; Avaí Futebol Clube
