Impávido colosso: política e imprensa na construção do estádio Colosso da Lagoa através do jornal a Voz da Serra - Erechim, 1964-1970

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand how the Ypiranga Futebol Clube Olympic Stadium, now known as the Colosso da Lagoa Olympic Stadium, located in the city of Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, was used as propaganda by Erechim's politicians, through the newspaper A Voz da Serra during the period of its construction, 1964 to 1970. This research seeks to understand how Erechim's politics were articulated in the period studied; to understand how Ypiranga Futebol Clube was presented in the newspaper and to understand what the dynamics were between the club and local and state politics, since the construction of the stadium began in the year that the president of the republic, João Goulart, was deposed by the military, and its completion coincided with the year of the Brazilian National Team's victory in the 1970 World Cup, which took place in Mexico. The methodology used is the analysis of articles from the city's largest circulation newspaper, A Voz da Serra, seeking to demonstrate how all this articulation occurred. In addition to a bibliographical research to understand the foundation and emancipation of the city of Erechim and its first inhabitants, the foundation of the Ypiranga Futebol Clube and the newspaper used as a source. Over the course of 4 chapters, it demonstrates how the football club is used as a municipal identity and reinforced by the pages of the newspaper, how the football team approaches the city's politics and how the written press uses the football stadium as a product of the Economic Miracle that was propagated by the Civil-Military Dictatorship.