Museu Virtual do Futebol piauiense (MFP): ensino de história, patrimônio esportivo e musealização do futebol (1960 – 1980)

Abstract

This thesis has as its central axis the relationship between Piauí football, sports heritage, and the teaching of History, articulated through a process of musealization of football in a virtual environment with pedagogical purposes. As an educational product of the research, the Virtual Museum of Piauí Football (MFP) was developed, conceived as a space for historical mediation and the promotion of local sports memory. The temporal scope analyzed covers decades marked by profound social transformations in Brazil, during the period of the civil-military dictatorship. In this context, football established itself as one of the sports most promoted by the regime, being mobilized both as an instrument of symbolic projection of national identity, associated with the idea of Brazil as the 'country of football,' and as an element of social integration and control in a scenario of restricted rights. In the state of Piauí, football also fits into the modernization and visibility policies implemented by the government of Alberto Silva during the studied period. The construction of the MFP was based on different sets of documents, especially journalistic, iconographic, and sports legislation sources produced in Teresina. Notably, in this collection, are the sports chronicles published in the newspaper O Dia between 1964 and 1975 and in Jornal do Piauí between 1971 and 1973. These sources supported the development of the exhibitions and educational trails of the virtual museum, organized into three rooms and four exhibitions, as well as in the development of pedagogical workshops applied to high school classes of a full-time school located in the eastern zone of Teresina (PI). Throughout the work, the aim is to analyze the interfaces between History teaching and the history of Piauí football, based on the identification and problematization of local sports heritage. In this sense, the research highlights the pedagogical potential of the musealization of football as a strategy for teaching History and for appreciation.