Orientador: Martha Rosa Pisani DestroDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de EducaçãoResumo: O presente trrabalho constiu-se numa pesquisa que teve como objetivo investigar os meios através dos quais o futebol foi e ainda pode ser utilizado como uma forma de reforço às idéias e valores que legitimam as relações capitalistas de produção. ...Observação: O resumo, na íntegra, poderá ser visualizado no texto completo da tese digitalAbstract: This work is based on a survey that aimed to investigate the ways in which football was and can still be used as a way of reinforcing the ideas and values that legitimize the capitalist relations of production. There has been an investigation of how football has been addressed by current approaches to Physical Education. In addition, the research works of authors from the historical-critical pedagogy revealed elements that an approach to Physical Education must have to make it possible to learn football in a view contrary to the dominant ideology. First, we examined specific ideological uses of football. To this end, we chose the periods of dictatorship of the New State and 1964-1985, on the understanding that were historic moments in football that was often used ideologically to serve the interests of the state. Later on, we present the analysis of the ideological use of football on the ground works of authors who studied the football and that, somehow, defend ideas that contribute to the legitimacy of capitalist relations of production. In the analysis of how football is present in the approaches of Physical Education, was made a division between approaches non-critical and critical, so that, without ignoring the contributions of the first, it was emphasized the point: the perception of the objective conditions of culture body that the latter approached a systematization that provides space for the teacher aims to combat the dominant ideology. In the last chapter, corresponding to the analysis of works by artists from the historical-critical pedagogy, which were investigated fundamental aspects of this trend can support a pedagogical teaching the elements of body culture contrary to the dominant ideology, where the football is intercepted in its relations with the concrete material conditions of social existence, in which it is built, and at the same time, this is the prospect of overcoming these conditions. These fundamentals can be summarized as follows: 1) the perception of constraints and objectives of education in the case of Physical Education, the body culture; 2) directiveness; 3) an education that addresses the relationship between content and practice the broader social - which is insufficiently explored, even by critical approaches of Physical Education, which still have attached to the field of experience of the elements of body culture. It is a literature review, and the theoretical and methodological framework adopted here is the dialectical and historical materialism, which is based on historical-critical pedagogy, so named by Dermeval SavianiMestradoHistoria, Filosofia e EducaçãoMestre em Educação