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This paper aims to analyze Brazilian athletes' participation in the South American Olympic Games held in 1907 in Montevideo/Uruguay through the publications published by the press in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The sources selected for this purpose were the following newspapers: Correio Paulistano, Jornal do Brazil, O Paiz and O Século. There is evidence of various tensions in the incipient Brazilian sporting sphere, which implied definitions of amateurism and professionalism, as well as disputes over the sporting protagonism between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In conclusion, the article points out that, even in this scenario of tensions, the Brazilian press tried to produce its first sports heroes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has aimed to analyse how the participation of the Spanish national football team in the 1950 World Cup was used as a political instrument. To achieve this goal, a documentary research both in Spanish proFranco newspapers and a Brazilian sports journal "Jornal dos Sports" was carried out, searching for news related to the matches played by the Spanish team during the 1950 World Cup. The conclusion is that football was used politically by the dictatorship set up by Franco and that the participation of the Spanish national team in the Brazilian World Cup was cleverly used by the Francoist leaders to enhance the image of Spain before the rest of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]