Transformations in global capitalism and soccer player market

Abstract

The objective of the research hereby introduced is to learn about the way the soccer players market works in Argentina
regarding other countries. Taking distance from the classical economic visions which take market exchanges as a result
of rational decisions of the agents, we carry out a sociological reading that puts into play three differentiated theoretical
models to understand how the player market is built. The changes in capitalism, the networks between actors and their
relationships in terms of conflict and cooperation all together taken with the role of the state are seen as determining factors
in the transfer operations of soccer players. There is a social matrix hidden behind an enomical logic. Methodologically,
there is a series of quantitative data taken from secondary sources and others from their own invoices, together with
qualitative data taken from interviews, which are the results of semi-structured interviews with actors involved in the football
environment