Cuca: um estudo de caso sobre a cobertura feita pela imprensa esportiva na década de 1980

Abstract

This research shows how the Bern's scandal, popularly known as Cuca case, was covered in three newspapers printed at the end of the 1980's. Alexi Stival, known as Cuca, Eduardo Hamester, Fernando Castoldi and Henrique Etges, four football athletes from Grêmio, were accused of raping a 13-year-old teenager in 1987. The journalistic articles relating to the crime that occurred in Switzerland were analyzed, including the arrest of the athletes and ending with the conviction for a sexual act in 1989. All reports on the situation found in the collections of Estadão, Jornal do Brasil and O Globo are described through the French line of discourse analysis, based on experts like Patrick Charaudeau (2006) and Cleudemar Alves Fernandes (2008). The research also studies the origins of sports journalism, as well as details all the characters in the Cuca case until reaching the analysis, which combines the discursive descriptions with the concepts of discourse analysis.