Democrata Futebol Clube, the invisible, and the contradictions of the commodification of brazilian football

Abstract

The article seeks to understand the contradictions that emerged from the wave of commodification of Brazilian football in 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, from Democrata Futebol Clube (MG). The corpus was selected to allow to perceive the differences of meaning in relation to productions of journalistic portals with levels of local, regional and national action. For this, journalistic textualities that say about the construction of its own stadium, the financial debts resulting from this process and the project of restructuring the club were analyzed. Among the results, the presence of the Arena do Jacaré stadium as the solution to the problems of the Democrata, although in an insufficient way to remove the club from the condition of "invisible".