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Clubs

This chapter highlights the importance of sports clubs. In the early 1900s, sports clubs were crucial in fostering activity, discipline, and belonging to create communities and build social order in South America. Moreover, sports clubs filled institutional spaces hitherto left empty by impoverished, indifferent, or negligent states and provided a place ostensibly free of political and religious disagreements. The chapter cites the work of Lima Cricket, Gimnasia y Esgrima in La Plata, and the São Paulo Athletic Club in popularizing soccer and channelling the sport into urban, regional, and national frameworks. It also discusses the multisport nature of the earliest clubs and the subsequent fractures between inclusive popular clubs and socially exclusive country clubs.

Yale University Press

Matthew Brown

Sports in South America

2023

Title: Clubs

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This chapter highlights the importance of sports clubs.

In the early 1900s, sports clubs were crucial in fostering activity, discipline, and belonging to create communities and build social order in South America.

Moreover, sports clubs filled institutional spaces hitherto left empty by impoverished, indifferent, or negligent states and provided a place ostensibly free of political and religious disagreements.

The chapter cites the work of Lima Cricket, Gimnasia y Esgrima in La Plata, and the São Paulo Athletic Club in popularizing soccer and channelling the sport into urban, regional, and national frameworks.

It also discusses the multisport nature of the earliest clubs and the subsequent fractures between inclusive popular clubs and socially exclusive country clubs.

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