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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]