ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we explore how the desire for football and social relations set people, activities and relations in motion, enabling participation in the governing interventions. It is important that young people engage in and attend the activities by their own will – essentially, this is the premise for carrying out the activities as arranged, functioning as units of production. In this sense, it is the desire to football and the rationality by which football is seen as an end in itself, that makes the instrumentality of sport possible to be utilized, transcending distinctions between football as an end or as a means.