Construction of violence in football: psychologization of the fan

Abstract

The phenomenon of violence associated to the football is not disarticulated from the ways social groups produce and reproduce meanings, which raises the need to produce comprehensions about the discursive processes that generate and maintain violence. We Approach to the study using qualitative methodology especially through discourse analysis. The sample was made from 188 news from the newspaper El Colombiano in the period between 2010 and 2015. We found that the press places the "fan" as a central axis when referring to the phenomenon of football violence, appealing to the psychologization and criminalization of this to explain the violence in the context Entertainment soccer.