"Tem que ser um amador profissional" os sentidos do trabalho para treinadores de futebol amador

Abstract

The economic, technological, political and social transformations present in the contemporary context stimulate, from different perspectives, the analysis on the changes in the ways of conceiving the work and the debate about the place in which it is found in the society and in the life of each individual, about changes in the meanings attributed to work and how it is managed in organizations. The phenomena of the meanings of work has been the subject of a growing number of studies that several have been engaged in the development of researches that deepen the knowledge about the themes. However, there is a prioritization, especially in the Administration, of studies focused on business-format organizations from a position that assigns work to the exclusive employment perspective. Similarly, within the sporting environment, specifically in football, there is still a predominance of research related to professionalized and spectacularized practice to the detriment of community football. In this sense, the present research has as general objective to identify and analyze the meanings attributed by the coaches the activity carried out in the amateur soccer championship of the city of Curitiba, popularly known as "Suburbana". It is a qualitative research of descriptiveexploratory nature with the non-participant observation of trainings and games of the clubs of the “Suburbana” in the years 2016 and 2017 and the accomplishment of 12 interviews divided into two stages, the first being characterized as exploratory where 8 coaches were interviewed and the last, inspired by the method of thematic oral history, conducted with 4 coaches who did not have as employment the activity of coach or any other related to football. Afterwards, we describe the trajectory of these coaches in which we focus their relations with amateur football and their entrances in the "Suburbana". Next, we characterize the activity of coach in the context of the competition, contemplating mainly the conditions of work and the relation between this activity and the formal employment exercise by the coaches. Finally, we identified eight meanings attributed to amateur football coach activity in "Suburbana": A “leisure with responsibility”; the construction and maintenance of affective bonds; identification with "being a coach"; ego satisfaction and social recognition; the opportunity to create - stimulus to "craftsmanship"; the becoming of a dream; training and development; and finally, the love of football. Such meanings should not be analyzed in isolation, but rather jointly, given that they are to a lesser or greater degree interconnected and reflect the paradoxes and contradictions in performing of being the exercise of coach of amateur soccer.