Table Of ContentNew Directions in Latino American Cultures
A series edited by Licia Fiol-Matta and José Quiroga
New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone
by Raquel Z. Rivera
The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, c. 1901
edited by Robert McKee Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan,
and Michelle Rocío Nasser
Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities
edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature
by Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations
edited by Doris Sommer
Jose Martí: An Introduction
by Oscar Montero
New Tendencies in Mexican Art: the 1990s
by Rubén Gallo
The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and
Mestizaje in American Imaginaries
edited by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics
by Idelber Avelar
An Intellectual History of the Caribbean
by Silvio Torres-Saillant
None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era
edited by Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails
by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé
The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World
edited by Ruth Behar and Lucía M. Suárez
Violence without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South
by Hermann Herlinghaus
Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/o American Comics
edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Poblete
Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement
edited by Vanessa Pérez Rosario
Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience
edited by Jacqueline Loss and José Manuel Prieto
Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience
by Christabelle Peters
Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature:
Body Articulations
by Bruce Dean Willis
New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Reality Effects
edited by Jens Andermann and Álvaro Fernández Bravo
Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry
by Jossianna Arroyo
Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works
by Sophia Beal
Viral Voyages: Tracing AIDS in Latin America
by Lina Meruane; translated by Andrea Rosenberg
Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America
Edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin,
and Juan Poblete
New Concepts in Latino American Cultures
A series edited by Licia Fiol-Matta and José Quiroga
Ciphers of History: Latin American Readings for a Cultural Age
by Enrico Mario Santí
Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place
by Jacqueline Loss
Remembering Maternal Bodies: Melancholy in Latina and Latin American
Women’s Writing
by Benigno Trigo
The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise
edited by Erin Graff Zivin
Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity:
From Sensuality to Bloodshed
by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity
by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
Essays in Cuban Intellectual History
by Rafael Rojas
Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing
by Damián Baca
Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative
by Elisabeth Guerrero
Cuban Women Writers: Imagining a Matria
by Madeline Cámara Betancourt; translated by David Frye
Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s
edited by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of
Corporeal Difference and Disability
by Susan Antebi
Telling Ruins in Latin America
edited by Michael J. Lazzara and Vicky Unruh
New Argentine Film: Other Worlds
by Gonzalo Aguilar; translated by Sarah Ann Wells
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Sports and Nationalism in
Latin/o America
Edited by
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin,
and Juan Poblete
SPORTS AND NATIONALISM IN LATIN/O AMERICA
Copyright © Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin,
and Juan Poblete, 2015.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-48718-6
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First published in 2015 by
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sports and nationalism in Latin/o America / edited by Héctor Fernández
L’Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, Juan Poblete.
pages cm.—(New directions in Latino American culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sports—Latin America—History. 2. Nationalism and sports—
Latin America—History. 3. Sports—Social aspects—Latin America.
I. Fernández l’Hoeste, Héctor D., 1962– II. Irwin, Robert McKee,
1962– III. Poblete, Juan.
GV586.S57 2015
796.098—dc23 2014043779
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.
Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India.
First edition: May 2015
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This book is dedicated to:
the loving memory of Héctor’s father, Héctor
Fernández Angulo, who shared his love for the Yankees
Robert’s late parents, Kathryn and Robert Irwin
and Juan’s father, Juan Poblete Merino, who never
practiced sports, but embodies the best of their spirit
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Contents
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin,
and Juan Poblete
Part I Sports and the Construction of Nationalism
1 Football and Patria, Ten Years Later: Sports
Nationalism as a Commodity 29
Pablo Alabarces
2 The Antinational Game? An Exploration of Women’s
Soccer in Latin America 45
Joshua Nadel
3 (F)Utopias: The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Rica 67
Sergio Villena Fiengo
4 Race, Sports, and Regionalism in the Construction of
Colombian Nationalism 85
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste
Part II Sports as Intranational Mediation
5 The Players of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model of
Culture: Life Stories Mediated by Television News 109
Vander Casaqui
6 Nationalism and Public Policies of Sports in Brazil 125
Renata Maria Toledo and Maria Tarcisa Silva Bega
7 The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at Bat:
Bodies, Voices, and Spaces of Cuban Baseball
in Sport Documentaries 141
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
