Evento esportivo é lugar para manifestação política: uma análise sobre o texto do Tiago Leifert com base em exemplos históricos e na Nova Retórica de Chaim Perelman

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of Tiago Leifert’s text “Evento esportivo não é lugar de manifestação política”. For this purpose, we chose Chaim Perelman's New Rhetoric to explore the arguments used by the journalist, and we conducted a survey with historical examples in which sport and politics were related. Throughout the theoretical part, we detailed the methodological course, the New Rhetoric, the history of sport and its relationship with politics, sports journalism and also Tiago Leifert’s trajectory on television. Thus, the counterarguments we found contradict Leifert's opinion and point out that a sporting event actually is a place for political manifestation.