ABSTRACT
Sport derives from activities that in prehistoric times were survival tactics. There is a very direct relationship between culture and sport, since we can fully consider the latter as a cultural product. The majority of actions carried out during sport are part of the most direct or primitive exercise of aggression, including hitting, kicking, and throwing. Authoritarian leaders have exploited this, giving strong encouragement to sport in order to unite the masses paradoxically behind ideals that involve military aggression. There are ways of playing sport that reveal a person's idiosyncrasies; their ways of being and feeling, their tastes, values, ideals, and their particular ways of expressing themselves. Sporting heroes, therefore, also became mediums, just like the priests, between the community and the quest for triumph and perfection. "The free expression of sexual and aggressive desires is restrained to permit coexistence and community life.
