Infamous (In)Visibilities: Uses of Anthropotechnical Devices for The Construction of Football Players’ Circulation

This article proposes to analyze the process of some Brazilian football players' circulation. We argue that these circulation in a professional football system (RIAL, 2008) are mediated by the use of multiples anthropotechnical devices such as the social medias, image promotion in local and global media, biographies books, its antecesor devices (DVDs) and others. By using the concepts of visibility and minor football (in a Foucauldian sense) we sustain the centrality of the notion tele-spectacle to understand the (dis)continuity of some careers through professional football. In turn, through bodily capital (WACQUANT, 1995) and visibility (HEINICH, 2012), footballers seek professional circulation mediated by subjects (agents, managers and also other footballers) and anthropotechnical devices (social media, DVD’s distribution, and others). Also, we put in evidence the circulation of infamous brazilian football players who had been interlocutors from a multi-sited ethnographic research conducted in Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands. The fieldwork used combined methods such as in-depth interviews, ethnographic experiences and social media following. We sustain through fieldwork an infamous condition for those footballers' careers who are achieving precarious professional recognition, and also reflecting about their relationship with fame and their life trajectories.

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