Soccer and homosexuality: The conflicts that lie within the affective game of the coach-adolescent athlete relationship

• Main Authors: Altair Moioli (Author), Afonso Antônio Machado (Author), Marcelo Callegari Zanetti (Author), Debra Frances Campbell (Author), António Rui Gomes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Discussions regarding homosexuality within a sports context are mediated by emotional nuances, especially in the world of soccer, where practitioners are required to have attributes such as strength, masculinity and aggressiveness. As a consequence, this work aimed to analyze the symbolic representa...