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Community Education Centers, a CETP's (Council of Technical Professional Education) public program, are implemented in places of a socioeconomic context corresponding to the first and second income quintile. CECs were designed for young people who, after finishing primary school, were not able to access secondary education, to bring them closer to the traditional education system. This paper analyses how this public policy builds youth and understands young people, in dialogue with the conceptualizations of sport as a social and cultural phenomenon, making it possible to discuss the view of this public policy and to what extent it collaborates with or feeds back into the representations and meanings given to sport in the CECs. Youth is understood as a social construction from which, in this case, public policies and their implementation are conceived. This paper focusses on the importance of establishing the view on young people both from the perspective of official documents as well as from the CECs actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the ways in which Uruguayan national identity is constructed through football narratives. These narratives occur in the popular and mass scene, uncovering some of the most conservative symbolic cultural structures. The analysis of two advertisements is proposed; one dedicated to the Uruguayan men's football team in the context of men's World Cup held in Russia in 2018, and the other during the men's soccer America's Cup, held in Brazil in 2019. The assumption is made that Uruguayan national narratives are based on a macho-heroic discourse, which expels women from football, as well as any form of masculinity other than the hegemonic one. Some thought is given to the ways in which the discourses on an imagined Uruguayan identity are legitimized and configured. Finally, a theoretical-methodological approach to build new narratives which recover the history and experience of women football players in Uruguay is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In June 1954, 28 national football associations from all over Europe met in Basel, Switzerland, to create a continental organization. Renamed as Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in October 1954, in less than ten years it became a major actor in European football, a leading role which it continued to play in the decades that followed. How can the creation of this organization be explained during the Cold War, when Europeans were divided? What were the main sources of inspiration for the advocates of UEFA? From a globalized perspective, this paper addresses these two questions by focusing on the role played by South American football administrators in this process. This research is primarily based on documents from the FIFA archives, in particular the minutes of both the Executive and Emergency Committees and the Congresses, as well as mail correspondence. These documents have been cross-referenced with other archives of national associations and a careful review of L'Equipe and France Football, newspapers with international scope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

Social sport, globally known as Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are two global events that mark the beginning of the 21st Century. In contrast with the Millennium Development Goals, the 2030 Agenda considers sport as one of the cultural activities that can contribute to the achievement of the SDG. In Latin America and the Caribbean there is a growing interest in social sport as a tool to achieve both pacification of countries and social inclusion. Based on a detailed analysis, it is possible to identify seventy-nine ad hoc organizations working in Latin America and the Caribbean. Only ten connect to the SDG. This paper analyzes Tiro en Braille (Braille Shot), a pioneer Mexican SDP organization, as the only regional organization that besides working towards the SDG, includes several facets of social inclusion: gender, disability, university populations, the purposely design of new sports under a plus sport approach, as well as the recovery of traditional/indigenous games/sports. It is explained how Tiro en Braille's methodology is susceptible to be replied in different countries of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]