Jornalismo e a demissão de treinadores do futebol brasileiro: por uma análise discursiva da mídia esportiva no contexto da saída de Domènec Torrent do Flamengo

Abstract

This research presents an analysis about five discursive regularities in the context of the dismissal of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo’s coach Domènec Torrent, in November 2020: the comparison in value: technicians in confrontations; the logically stabilized universe: football in numbers and dice; the technician's “curriculum”; the subject-journalist position: the authority of / in the saying; the deletions of / in the saying. Altogether, four statements were chosen in media sports to make an evaluation about the work of the catalaunian coach: “We can no longer look for excuses: Dome’s work is (very) bad at Flamengo” - in the words of journalist Paulo Cobos (ESPN); “Domènec’s work with Flamengo, the best squad in Brazil, is pitiful” - column of journalist Renato Maurício Prado (UOL); “Should Flamengo fire Domènec? Edmundo evaluates the team and Gabigol” - agenda of Giro Fox program from Disney Channels; “Flamengo has dropped a level” - opinion of journalist André Rizek, replicated in the newspaper “Lance!”. For the theoretical foundation of this research, Discourse Analysis was chosen, with emphasis on Foucault’s Discursive Studies, in order to analyze how the discourses of sports journalists are constructed and work in society and how these statements seek to produce truths about and for coaches in Brazilian football. Throughout the theoretical part, there was a debate about discourse and utterance, power and subject(s) in/of discourse and about sports journalism and its practice. Keywords: Football; Flamengo; Coachs; Domènec Torrent; Discourse Analysis; Foucault.