The Digital Library of Latin American and Caribbean Sports (DLLACS)

Items

• A dança das cadeiras: a eleição de João Havelange à presidência da FIFA (1950-1974).
  In 1974, the Brazilian sports official João Havelange was elected FIFA's president in a tworound election, defeating the incumbent Stanley Rous. The upset, often attributed to a successful alliance with Asia, the Middle East and Africa, what at the time was referred to as the Third World surprised observers everywhere. The story told by Havelange himself describes a private odyssey in which the protagonist crisscrosses two thirds of the world canvassing for votes and challenging the institutional status quo. For many scholars, Havelange's triumph changed FIFA's (International Federation of Football Association) identity, gradually turning it into a global and immensely wealthy institution. Conversely, the election can be analyzed as a historically relevant event of social significance. It can be thought of as a political window by means of which the international dynamic of a specific moment in the Cold War can be perceived, especially the limitations and potentialities of the agency available to periphery countries at that time. The active role played by the military dictatorship and by segments of Brazilian civil society in the making of the campaign indicates the existence of a political project revolving around Havelange's candidacy. In this regard, this project seeks to understand which actors were involved in the election, how networks were shaped: and which political agents were directly engaged in the campaign.
• El Titular Deportes
  The website provides the access to various publications made by the magazine El Titular Deportes. The magazine includes recent information and articles about Colombian and international athletes, sporting events and other information. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Cuadernos del Mundial
  This website provides visual and writing material critically analyzing the 2018 FIFA World Cup considering its political, social, and cultural dimensions. The effort replicates a similar one produced for the previous World Cup in 2014, in Brazil. The site is published by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO), a very influential network of Latin American scholars and think tanks developing critical scholarship in and about a wide variety of Latin American issues. One of the CLACSO's working groups is "Sports, public policies, and society (Deporte, políticas públicas y sociedad) and their members feed this website. The material available includes a periodical about the FIFA World Cup, as well as videos, and audios. The material produced about the 2014 FIFA World Cup is also available. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.