Symposium in Rio addresses hooliganism and the 2014 World Cup

On April 24 and 25, the Social Sciences and History School (CPDOC) carried out the ?Second International Symposium on Hooliganism and the 2014 World Cup?. The meeting was coordinated by the professor and researcher of Social History of Sports and football club fans, Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, with the purpose to address the challenges of implementing prevention policies as response to violent behavior by organized club fans, regarding the preparations for the 2014 World Cup.Hooliganism is an European phenomenon and derives from late 19th Century, but the word started to associated to sports fans' violence in the 1960's, in the United Kingdom. According to the professor, the main concern related to the World Cup in Brazil is not about national club fans. ?The main concern is not about Brazilian organized club fans. The World Cup turned into a spectacular mega-event, increasingly related to the tourism industry, so that the focus must be the inflow of an international audience more interested in a show and family leisure experience in a foreign country. It is obvious that disturbances might occur, but they must be isolated events?, explains Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda in his interview to Estadão newspaper this Sunday.The seminar was attended by the anthropologist José Paulo Florenzano, historian Marcos Pereira de Souza, Heloísa Reis, and French social scientists Anastasia Troukala, Nicolas Hourcade, Patrick Mignon and Paul Diestchy.The ?Second International Symposium on Hooliganism and the 2014 World Cup? also took place at UNICAMP, on April 26, from 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM. The first meeting was in April of 2011.Enrollment can be made up to May 24, 08:00 AM. To participate, go to http://cpdoc.fgv.br/hooliganismo