Estácio FIC/FUT3 Project: What it represents for teenagers

Abstract

The sport adds several values to its participants as collectivism, friendship and solidarity, being these values indispensable for their lives. Members of lower income social classes tend to have sport as a form of social upward mobility, and as such may represent self-fulfillment, since many live in areas that do not provide them with the right to a full citizenship. Football has great influence on its practitioners, since they require great changes in postures as a person and an athlete. Today, the athlete living in an area of risk has the possibility, through sport, of having access to a quality school, having a healthy relationship with other young people, learning to respect rules and hierarchy. This young may not even become an athlete, but through sport he will have all the tools to become a complete citizen. The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of the Estácio FIC/FUT3 Football Project and football in the life of adolescents. Interviews were conducted with 15 adolescents between 14 and 17 years old who participated in the Estácio FIC / FUT3 Football Project. After transcribed, the interviews were submitted to the Content Analysis methodology that found the following contents: Drugs and bad friendships; social welfare and school; Better future. One can conclude that the great demand for a football project is due to the dream of opportunities. Through the project there is the reintegration of these young people into society, a behavioral change and the creation of a citizen who sees in sport a possibility of change of life and conduct.