History, science or romance? The theme of identities in brazilian football

Abstract

There is some time, a perception of crisis has been manifesting in the field of human sciences and, consequently, in the historiographic field about the status of science for History in general. It is a question of epistemological nature and, as such, it reverberates and challenges historians as a whole, independent of the specificities of its object. The central aim of this article is to problematize the field of historical studies involving identity and football that develops in Brazil, in light of that crisis diagnosis. For this, a brief presentation of that crisis is realized, highlighting the historiographic proposal of Jörn Rüsen as a way of overcoming it. Following, from a given bibliographic choice, an overview is presented about studies in Brazil involving the theme of football´s identities. Finally, the article concludes with some notes and the possibility of the use of the elisiana theory in the sport´s historiography.