Sixteenth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

This study examines a collection of oral history interviews produced within a particular institutional setting: the “Memories of Football” project, carried out by the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS), in the 1980s. We address the possibilities afforded by working with collections of interviews conducted by third parties, decades apart, and the unexpected aspects arising from the use of narratives recorded at a time when oral history was not yet well stablished and widespread. The paper also highlights the unexpected conduct of interviewers who imposed their personal research interests and discussions inherent to sports journalism over the public purpose of a project for the preservation of Brazilians’ collective memory of football.