Abstract

REYNA, Franco. Inequality in professional football’s competitive structures in 1930s Córdoba (Argentina) . Folia [online]. 2018, n.33, pp.161-182. ISSN 0325-8238.

This paper analyzes certain practices and forms of inequality institutionalization within the professionalization of football during the 1930s in Córdoba (Argentina), and it focuses on the imbalances between different clubs in the game configuration of the competitive structures. Within this framework, entities that held positions of power and that had previously accumulated resources defined, and symbolically legitimized, changes and regulatory innovations in the spaces of competition to enhance the development of the rented spectacle. As a result, the hoarding and inequitable distribution of the assets at stake in the sports market clearly affected the competition between the entities and instituted new forms of inequality, in the context of a process of greater commercialization of the entertainment society. The documentary sources used to carry out the research belong to sports associations, local newspapers, and municipal government entities.

Keywords : Football; Inequality; Competitive structures; Professionalization.

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