MUNICIPAL LEAGUES AND COPA DOS RIOS DE SELECOES: INTEGRATION OF THE AMAZONAS SPACE THROUGH THE UNDERGROUND CENTRALITY/LIGAS MUNICIPAIS E COPA DOS RIOS DE SELECOES: INTEGRACAO DO ESPACO AMAZONENSE ATRAVES DA CENTRALIDADE SUBTERRANEA

The amateur football organized by the Amazonas Football Federation (AFF) through municipal leagues and Copa dos Rios de Selecoes--promotes the integration of the Amazonas space in a way that the professional football does not manage to. Thus, the present study aims at analysing how municipal leagues and Copa dos Rios de Selecoes integrate the symbolic space of the Amazonian football through the underground centrality. In order to reach this goal, based on Foucault (2006), a three-dimensional spatialization of football is proposed: discursive, practical, and institutional. Data for the analysis were gathered through field observation and interviews conducted in the years 2007, 2008, and 2015 (in Manaus and Parintins) as well as document research. Te interviews were analysed under the lights of Discourse Analysis. The municipal leagues--that join selections to dispute Copa dos Rios de Selecoes--are organized through underground centrality and community feeling, articulating different municipal actors. In spite of the great distances, Copa dos Rios de Selecoes manages to integrate nearly all inner municipality in Amazonas (in 2013 and 2014, put together 54 out of 61 possible municipality). For both managers and participants, Copa dos Rios de Selecoes is the real Amazonas championship, being able of articulate over 80% of the municipalities by edition, as well as different sociospatial actors, such as players, football referees, public power, businessmen, among others. Keywords: Football; Amateur football; Amazonas O futebol amador organizado pela Federacao Amazonense de Futebol (FAF) atraves de ligas municipais e da Copa dos Rios de Selecoes--consegue promover a integracao do espaco amazonense de forma que o futebol profissional nao e capaz. Assim, o presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar como as ligas municipais e a Copa dos Rios de Selecoes integram o espaco simbolico do futebol amazonense atraves da centralidade subterranea. Para tal, e proposta, baseada em Foucault (2006), uma espacializacao do futebol em tres dimensoes: discursiva, pratica e institucional. Os dados utilizados foram obtidos atraves de observacoes de campo e entrevistas realizadas em 2007, 2008 e 2015 (em Manaus e Parintins), bem como pesquisa documental. As entrevistas realizadas foram analisadas atraves da Analise do Discurso. As ligas municipais--que formam selecoes para disputar a Copa dos Rios de Selecoes--se organizam atraves da centralidade subterranea e do sentimento comunitari