This essay focuses on learning soccer in physical education classes. Elaborated from an ethnographic study of football practice of young people in a neighborhood of Belo Horizonte (study unveiled that soccer's learning is through the engagement of practitioners in everyday practice and that it is independent of the pedagogical relations master / apprentice) the text approaches penetration of "school form" (VINCENT, LAHIRE, THIN, 2001VINCENT, G.; LAHIRE, B.; THIN, D. Sobre a história e teoria da forma escolar. Educação em Revista, Belo Horizonte, v. 1, n. 33, p. 7-48, jun 2001.) in soccer in school. The scarcity of educational interventions in football practices in the classroom does not hinder the dialogue between different modes of learning in school environments. In soccer in dialogue with school form, more than learning the game, what is at issue is the "education" of young people in the sport.
Football; Learning; Participation; School Form